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February 2009

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• Biology Library Spring Break Hours, March 7-15, 2009:
  Saturdays - Sundays closed; Monday - Friday 8:30am - noon and 1-5pm
  Note: A power outage is currently scheduled for Wed. March 11 which would mean no lights, computers, or heat/ac. Wednesday of Spring Break may be a good day to avoid the library! If we decide to close, we will post signs on the door.
• Brief picture tour of the biology library and lounge areas: If you haven't visited recently you might be interested in seeing what we look like now. There's a new slide show at http://libguides.wustl.edu/biology
• NIH Public Access Policy classes: Additional sessions have now been scheduled at Becker Medical Library, room 601A. This provides an overview of the NIH Public Access Policy including the steps involved in complying with the policy and how to demonstrate compliance. Upcoming Class Dates:
  Wednesday, 03/18/2009 10:00-11:00 AM
  Wednesday, 05/13/2009 10:00-11:00 AM
  Wednesday, 07/15/2009 10:00-11:00 AM
  Please pre-register at https://aladdin.wustl.edu/medlib/Projecti.nsf/classcalendar
• 2009 Neureuther Student Book Collecting Essay Competition is now accepting entries for graduate and undergraduate prizes. The deadline for submissions is March 27, 2009. More info.
• Verify that old Scientific American (or other journal) citation from your desk! We now have Reader's Guide Retro database available. This indexes 1890-1982. Of course, you may actually need to come to the library to get the article because older articles are often not available online, but you can get the correct citation and request the volume from West Campus when necessary. More info.
• Bestsellers in Biology, May 2008 to date as Identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalog records when available
  1) Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge Sideris, Lisa State University of New York Press 2008. ISBN 0791474712 [9780791474716]. $74.50
  2) Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Worster, Donald Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 0195166825 [9780195166828]. $34.95
  3) Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul Miller, Kenneth R. Viking 2008. ISBN 067001883x [9780670018833]. $25.95
  4) Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat Roston, Eric Walker & Company 2008. ISBN 0802715575 [9780802715579]. $25.99
  5) Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science Sober, Elliott Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 0521871883 [9780521871884]. $90.00
  6) Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology Harman, Oren Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 030011639x [9780300116397]. $40.00
  7) How Life Began: Evolution's Three Geneses Trans. by Daniel Simberloff Meinesz, Alexandre University Of Chicago Press 2008. ISBN 0226519317 [9780226519319]. $27.50
  8) Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise Of Genetic Engineering Holdrege, Craig University Press of Kentucky 2008. ISBN 0813124840 [9780813124841]. $45.00
  9) Short Guide to the Human Genome Scherer, Stewart Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2008. ISBN 0879697911 [9780879697914]. $29.00
  10) Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States Doyle, Mary Island Press 2008. ISBN 1597260258 [9781597260251]. $70.00
  11) Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought Richards, Robert J. University Of Chicago Press 2008. ISBN 0226712141 [9780226712147]. $39.00
  12) Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum Fortey, Richard A. Alfred A. Knopf 2008. ISBN 0307263622 [9780307263629]. $27.50
  13) Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment Layzer, Judith A. MIT Press 2008. ISBN 0262122987 [9780262122986]. $70.00
  14) Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas Lindsay, Ronald A. Prometheus 2008. ISBN 1591026245 [9781591026242]. $28.98
  15) Promising Genomics: Iceland and Decode Genetics in A World of Speculation Fortun, Mike University Of California Press 2008. ISBN 0520247507 [9780520247505]. $60.00
  16) Human Genome Project in College Curriculum: Ethical Issues and Practical Strategies Donovan, Aine Dartmouth College 2008. ISBN 1584656956 [9781584656951]. $50.00
  17) Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing For Sustainability Waltner-Toews, David Columbia University Press 2008. ISBN 0231132506 [9780231132503]. $99.50
  18) Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems Allen, Craig Columbia University Press 2008. ISBN 023114444x [9780231144445]. $84.50
  19) American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery Wilshire, Howard Gordon Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 0195142055 [9780195142051]. $35.00
  20) Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology Kiorboe, Thomas Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 0691134227 [9780691134222]. $39.50

**Additions to Publications from WU Biology Department
This PubMed search link will retrieve most WU Biology Dept. researchers' publications, plus a few in biomedical engineering, chemistry, etc. (Strategy is biology [ad] AND washington university [ad] AND 63130 [ad]).

• Brudvig LA, Asbjornsen H. 2009. Dynamics and determinants of Quercus alba seedling success following savanna encroachment and restoration. Forest Ecol Manage 257(3):876-884. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers; WU does not subscribe.
• Brudvig LA, Asbjornsen H. 2009. The removal of woody encroachment restores biophysical gradients in Midwestern oak savannas. J Appl Ecol 46:231-240. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Dai S, Wei X, Alfonso AA, Pei L, Duque UG, Zhang Z, Babb GM, Beachy RN. 2008. Transgenic rice plants that overexpress transcription factors RF2a and RF2b are tolerant to rice tungro virus replication and disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:21012-6. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication| ScienceDaily article.
• Dixit R, Barnett B, Lazarus JE, Tokito M, Goldman YE, Holzbaur EL. 2009. Microtubule plus-end tracking by CLIP-170 requires EB1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:492-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 2 months after publication.
• Ertter B, Lewis WH. 2008. New Rosa (Rosaceae) in California and Oregon. Madroña 55:170-177. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne 2 subscribers; WU does not subscribe.
• He XJ, Hsu YF, Pontes O, Zhu J, Lu J, Bressan RA, Pikaard C, Wang CS, Zhu JK. 2009. NRPD4, a protein related to the RPB4 subunit of RNA polymerase II, is a component of RNA polymerases IV and V and is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation. Genes Dev 23(3):318-30. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Knight TM, Caswell H, Kalisz S. 2009. Population growth rate of a common understory herb decreases non-linearly across a gradient of deer herbivory. Forest Ecol Manage 257(3): 1095-1103. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers; WU does not subscribe.
• Lewis WH. 2008. (1859) Proposal to conserve the name Rosa virginiana Mill. against R. virginiana Herrm. (Rosaceae). Taxon Fulltext for subscribers.
• Ream TS, Haag JR, Wierzbicki AT, Nicora CD, Norbeck A, Zhu JK, Hagen G, Guilfoyle TJ, Paša-Tolic L, Pikaard CS. 200X. Subunit compositions of the RNA-silencing enzymes Pol IV and Pol V reveal their origins as specialized forms of RNA polymerase II. Mol Cell 33:192-203. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 1 year after publication.
• Riddle NC, Shaffer CD, Elgin SC. 2009. A lot about a little dot - lessons learned from Drosophila melanogaster chromosome 4. Biochem Cell Biol 87(1):229-41. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Templeton AR. 2009. Statistical hypothesis testing in intraspecific phylogeography: nested clade phylogeographical analysis vs. approximate Bayesian computation. Mol Ecol 18:319-331. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Vitt P, Havens K, Kendall BE, Knight TM. 2009. Effects of community-level grassland management on the non-target rare annual Agalinis auriculata. Biological Conservation 142:798-805. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Xin Y, Lu YK, Fromme R, Fromme P, Blankenship RE. 2009. Purification, characterization and crystallization of menaquinol:fumarate oxidoreductase from the green filamentous photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochim Biophys Acta - Bioenergetics 1787:86-96. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

**Recent Additions to Library Homepage or Research Guides [Suggestions welcome!]**

Cytologia

Full text, v.67, 2002+; I'm not sure if this is freely available or due to our print subscription; J-STAGE.

FEMS back volumes are now available online. Formerly we only had 1996+. FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 1993+; FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 1993+; FEMS Microbiology Letters, 1977+; FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 1993+.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals OMIA, a database of genes, inherited disorders and traits in animal species (other than human and mouse)

Plant Omics; Journal of Plant Biology & Omics

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Full text, v.17, 1890-5 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences

Full text, v.7-16, 1878-1889; WU access only; JSTOR.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Full text, v.1-6, 1867-1877; WU access only; JSTOR.

**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

Ebooks

Cambridge Companion to Darwin
Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
Cambridge Companion to the "Origin of Species"
and the entire Cambridge Collections Online is now searchable and browsable at your desktop!

New on ScienceDirect:
Current Topics in Developmental Biology v.84, Mouse Models of Developmental Genetic Disease
Methods in Cell Biology v.90, Methods in Nano Cell Biology
Methods in Enzymology v.452: Autophagy in Mammalian Systems, Part B
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.66 2009
Methods in Enzymology v. 449: RNA Turnover in Eukaryotes: Analysis of Specialized and Quality Control RNA Decay Pathways
Methods in Enzymology v. 453: Autophagy in Disease and Clinical Applications, Part C
Methods in Enzymology v. 454: Computer Methods, Part A
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.67 2009

Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE:
Dietary Modulation of Cell Signaling Pathways

New from Springerprotocols [These will be added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
SARS- and Other Coronaviruses: Laboratory Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 454)
Plant Signal Transduction: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 479)
Macromolecular Drug Delivery: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 480)
Hepatocyte Transplantation: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 481)
Recombinant Proteins From Plants: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 483)
Plant Hormones: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 495)
The Nuclear Receptor Superfamily: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 505)
Microchip Methods in Diagnostics (Methods in Molecular Biology 509)
The ELISA Guidebook (Methods in Molecular Biology 516)
Microinjection: Methods and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology 518)
Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 492)
Phospho-Proteomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology 527)

New Ebooks from Springer:
The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium (Developments in Hydrobiology, v.201)
Challenges to Marine Ecosystems (Developments in Hydrobiology, v.202)
Brain Imaging: The Chemistry of Mental Activity
Microbial Megaplasmids (Microbiology Monographs, v.11)
Nonlinear Regression with R
Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists (Computational Biology, v.8)
Bacterial Circadian Programs
Nicotine Psychopharmacology (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.192)
Early Nutrition Programming and Health Outcomes in Later Life: Obesity and Beyond (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.646)
Water and Solute Permeability of Plant Cuticles: Measurement and Data Analysis
Anatomical Imaging: Towards a New Morphology
Molecular Pain
Plant Relationships (The Mycota, v.5)
Biosilica in Evolution, Morphogenesis, and Nanobiotechnology: Case Study Lake Baikal (Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, v.47)
The Future of Fisheries Science in North America (Fish & Fisheries Series, v.32)
Host Plant Catalog of Aphids: Palaearctic Region
Nineteenth International Seaweed Symposium (Developments in Applied Phycology, v.2)
Cell Stress Proteins (Protein Reviews, v.7)
Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics
Protein Engineering (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology 22)
Apoptotic Chromatin Changes

Print books Click on the title for more info or to request

February 6, 2009 - February 13, 2009

Annual review of entomology Review serial v.54 (2009)
Evolution vs. creationism : an introduction Scott, Eugenie Carol QH367 .S395 2009
Evolutionary writings Darwin, Charles QH31.D2 A3 2008
Hot zones [videorecording] RA651 .H68 2003

February 13, 2009-February 20, 2009

Biology 2970, fall 2008 [videorecording] Biol 2970 2008:Fall lectures
Evolution : the first four billion years QH366.2 .E863 2009
Mermaid's tale : four billion years of... Weiss, Kenneth M. QH325 .W43 2009
Prairie dogs : communication and community... Slobodchikoff, C. N. QL737.R68 S56 2009
Question of animal culture QL751 .Q84 2009

February 27, 2009-March 6, 2009

Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology Review serial v.49 (2009)
Cellular signal processing : an introduction... Marks, Friedrich QP517.C45 M37 2009
Evolutionary biogeography : an integrative... Morrone, Juan J. QH84 .M665 2009
Learning from animals? : examining the nature of... BF671 .L43 2009
Nature's second chance : restoring... Apfelbaum, Steven I QH105.W6 A74 2009
Social behavior of older animals Dagg, Anne Innis. QL775 .D33 2009

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