Biology News & New Books List
May 2009
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- IngentaConnect Alerting Service will be discontinued August 31, 2009. Up to 5 tables of contents are free from this service but we have been paying for additional tables of contents and search alerts for WU campus users. A few alternatives are listed at Database, Journal, and Search Engine Alerts. If you wish, please contact Ruth Lewis for help setting up alternative alerts.
- NIH Public Access Policy classes: Additional sessions have now been scheduled at Becker Medical Library, room 601A. This provides an overview of the,now permanent, NIH Public Access Policy including the steps involved in complying with the policy and how to demonstrate compliance. Upcoming Class Dates:
Wednesday, 07/15/2009 10:00-11:00 AM
Please pre-register at https://aladdin.wustl.edu/medlib/Projecti.nsf/classcalendar - Summer Reading: Royal Society Prize for Science Books Longlist Announced
Titles are linked to local catalog records where available.
* What the nose knows: The science of scent in everyday life by Avery Gilbert
* Bad science by Ben Goldacre -- no academic library in Missouri seems to have purchased this yet but I've seen some interesting reviews on Richard Dawkins blog and elsewhere - this may be a book we should try to buy after fy10 money is available; it is a very inexpensive paperback
* The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes
* Living with Enza: The forgotten story of Britain and the great flu pandemic of 1918 by Mark Honigsbaum
* Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality by Manjit Kumar
* Strange fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik
* Decoding the heavens: Solving the mystery of the world's first computer by Jo Marchant
* The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow
* Physics for future presidents: The science behind the headlines by Richard A Muller
* Your inner fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin [US edition has a slightly different title]
* Ice, mud and blood: Lessons from climates past by Chris Turney
* Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life by Carl Zimmer
* The universe in a mirror: The saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the visionaries who built it by Robert Zimmerman
Thanks to John Dupuis' blog for the alert about this. - Best Sellers in Botany-Zoology August 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to a local catalog when available.
1) Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies Holldobler, Bert W.W. Norton 2009. ISBN 0393067041 [9780393067040 ]. $55
2) Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet Morton, Oliver HarperCollins 2008. ISBN 0007163649 [9780007163649 ]. $28.95
3) Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest To End Famine Nabham, Gary Paul Island Press 2008. ISBN 1597263990 [9781597263993 ]. $24.95
4) Exploring Animal Social Networks Croft, Darren P. Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 0691127514 [9780691127514 ]. $75
5) Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals Grandin, Temple Houghton Harcourt 2009. ISBN 0151014892 [9780151014897 ]. $26
6) Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees Nadkarni, Nalini University of California Press 2008. ISBN 0520248562 [9780520248564 ]. $24.95
7) Better To Eat You With: Fear in the Animal World Berger, Joel University of Chicago Press 2008. ISBN 0226043630 [9780226043630 ]. $29
8) Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication Dudzinski, Kathleen Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 0300121121 [9780300121124 ]. $30
9) Social Behavior of Older Animals Dagg, Anne Innis Johns Hopkins University 2009. ISBN 0801890500 [9780801890505 ]. $35
10) Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations Catchpole, Clive Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 0521872421 [9780521872423 ]. $80
11) Tuna: A Love Story Ellis, Richard Knopf 2008. ISBN 0307267156 [9780307267153 ]. $27.95
12) Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity Gadau, Jurgen Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674031253 [9780674031258 ]. $79.95
13) Lichen Biology Nash, Thomas H. Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 052187162x [9780521871624 ]. $140
14) Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Bond in the Process Pepperberg, Irene M. Collins 2008. ISBN 0061672475 [9780061672477 ]. $23.95
15) Question of Animal Culture Laland, Kevin N. Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674031261 [9780674031265 ]. $49.95
16) Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures Schutt, Bill Harmony Crown 2008. ISBN 0307381129 [9780307381125 ]. $25.95
17) Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society Slobodchikoff, C.N. Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674031814 [9780674031814 ]. $39.95
18) Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal Bortolotti, Dan St Martin’s 2008. ISBN 0312383878 [9780312383879 ]. $24.95
19) Egg & Nest Purcell, Rosamond Wolff Belknap: Harvard University Press 2008. ISBN 0674031725 [9780674031722 ]. $39.95
20) Audubon: Early Drawings Audubon, John James Belknap: Harvard University Press 2008. ISBN 0674031024 [9780674031029 ]. $125
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]).
- Brower-Toland B, Riddle NC, Jiang H, Huisinga KL, Elgin SC. 2009. Multiple SET Methyltransferases Are Required to Maintain Normal Heterochromatin Domains in the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 181(4):1303-19. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 3 months after publication.
- Farrington SJ, Muzika R-M, Drees D, Knight TM. 2009. Interactive Effects of Harvest and Deer Herbivory on the Population Dynamics of American Ginseng. Conservation Biology 23(3):719-728. abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Harmon LJ, Matthews B, Roches SD, Chase JM, Shurin JB, Schluter D. 2009. Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature 458:1167-1170. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- He XJ, Hsu YF, Zhu S, Wierzbicki AT, Pontes O, Pikaard CS, Liu HL, Wang CS, Jin H, Zhu JK. 2009. An effector of RNA-directed DNA methylation in arabidopsis is an ARGONAUTE 4- and RNA-binding protein. Cell 137(3):498-508. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
- Knight TM, Dunn JL, Smith LA, Davis J, Kalisz S. 2009. Deer Facilitate Invasive Plant Success in a Pennsylvania Forest Understory. Natural Areas J 29(2):110-116. Abstract [WU has in print but not online].
- Komatsu K, Nishikawa Y, Ohtsuka T, Taji T, Quatrano RS, Tanaka S, Sakata Y. 2009. Functional analyses of the ABI1-related protein phosphatase type 2C reveal evolutionarily conserved regulation of abscisic acid signaling between Arabidopsis and the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Mol Biol 70(3):327-40. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
- Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Martin BA, Orrock JL. 2009. Effects of long-term consumer manipulations on invasion in oak savanna communities. Ecology 90(5):1356-1365. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Suga N. 2009. Nobuo Suga. pp. 480-512 IN The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, vol. 6, edited by Larry R. Squire. Oxford University Press. More info.
- Tang KH, Wen J, Li X, Blankenship RE. 2009. The role of the AcsF protein in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. J Bacteriol 191(11):3580-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 4 months after publication.
- Vonesh JR, Kraus JM. 2009. Pesticide alters habitat selection and aquatic community composition. Oecologia 160(2):379-385. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Wierzbicki AT, Ream TS, Haag JR, Pikaard CS. 2009. RNA polymerase V transcription guides ARGONAUTE4 to chromatin. Nat Genet 41(5):630-4. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Yi H, Preuss ML, Jez JM. 2009. The devil (and an active jasmonate hormone) is in the details. Nat Chem Biol 5(5):273-4. PubMed citation and fulltext for subscribers.
- Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
- Full text, v.1-83, 1917-2002; WU access only; JSTOR. We continue to have current access at ESA site.
- Folio Geobotanica
- Full text, v.33, 1998-5 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.
- Folio Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica
- Full text, v.1-32, 1966-1997; WU access only; JSTOR.
- Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science
- Full text, v.1-12, 1959-1977; WU access only; JSTOR.
- Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
- Full text, v. 13, 1978-1 year ago; WU access only; JSTOR. Current access continues at the BioOne site.
- Lindbergia
- Full text, v.1, 1971-4 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.
Ebooks
Becker Medical Library has purchased the Medicine collection from Ebrary books; accessrestricted to WU or WU proxy. Here are a few examples. This includes more than 2000 ebooks, many are older and we may already have some of these books in print:
Heredity produced at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870
DNA promise and peril
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs : Of Eastern and Central North America (2nd Edition)
Biodiversity & Health : Focusing Research to Policy / Biodiversité & Santé : De la recherche aux politiques
Bios : A Study of Creation
Way and the Word : Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
E-books about Microbiology, including Prion Biology & Diseases, Bacterial Invasion of Host Cells, Microbiology Demystified, Bacterial Evasion of Host Immune Responses
Inspired by Biology : From Molecules to Materials to Machines
Is Human Nature Obsolete? : Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition
Genes and DNA : A Beginner's Guide to Genetics and Its Applications
E-books about physiology, including Physiology by Numbers : An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking, Developmental Neuroscience : Development of the Visual System, Natural Biodynamics, Physiologic Nature of Sleep, History of Nerve Functions : From Animal Spirits to Molecular Mechanisms, Nerve and Muscle, On the Contexts of Things Human : An Integrative View of Brain, Consciousness, and Freedom of Will, Nerve Cells & Animal Behaviour, Cognitive Neurosciences (3rd Edition), Synesthesia : A Union of the Senses (2nd Edition)
New on ScienceDirect:
Methods in Enzymology, v.457: Mitochondrial Function, Part B: Mitochondrial Protein Kinases, Protein Phosphatases and Mitochondrial Diseases
Advances in Applied Microbiology, Vol. 68
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Vol. 87, Development of Neural Circuitry
Methods in Enzymology, v.460: Chemokines, Part A
Methods in Enzymology, v.461: Chemokines, Part B
Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE:
Geomicrobiology, Fifth Edition
Biotechnological Approaches for Pest Management and Ecological Sustainability
Regulation of Gene Expression by Small RNAs
Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement
Sustainable Agroecosystem Management
Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics, Second Edition
Biomolecular EPR Spectroscopy
Endocrine Disruption Modeling
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
Animal Clinical Chemistry
Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis
New Ebooks from Springer [These books are now being regularly added to the library catalog!]:
Plant-produced Microbial Vaccines (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.332)
Membrane Trafficking (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.457)
Systems Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.500)
Bioinformatics: An Introduction (Computational Biology, v.10)
Conifer Reproductive Biology
Encyclopedia of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in a Sustainable Rice—Wheat Cropping System
The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use (Monographiae Biologicae, v.89)
Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes (Developments in Hydrobiology, v. 204)
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Signal Mechanism
Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation: Utilisation of Agro-Residues
Heat Shock Proteins in Neural Cells
Cereals (Handbook of Plant Breeding, v.3)
Circuits in the Brain: A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex
Dendritic Cells in Cancer
Dynamics of the Mammalian Sperm Head: Modifications and Maturation Events From Spermatogenesis to Egg Activation (Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, v.204)
Mitochondria and Cancer
Stem Cells and Cancer
Trends in Stem Cell Biology and Technology
Paper books Click on the title for more info or to request
May 1, 2009-May 8, 2009
Forms of becoming : the evolutionary biology of development Minelli, Alessandro.
QH491 .M559513 2009
The genial gene : deconstructing Darwinian selfishness Roughgarden, Joan.
QL761 .R68 2009
The history of neuroscience in autobiography
QP353 .H57 v.6
May 8, 2009-May 15, 2009
Chlamydomonas sourcebook
QK569.C486 C48 2009 v.1
Chlamydomonas sourcebook
QK569.C486 C48 2009 v.2
Chlamydomonas sourcebook
QK569.C486 C48 2009 v.3
Lives of conifers : a comparative account... Powell, Graham R.
SD397.C7 P68 2009
MATLAB for neuroscientists : an introduction...
QP357.5 .M38 2009
Microbiology : an evolving science Slonczewski, Joan
QR41.2 .S585 2009
Prairie spring Dunne, Pete
QK110 .D86 2009
May 15, 2009-May 22, 2009
Annual review of immunology Review serial v.27 (2009)
May 22, 2009-May 29, 2009
Intelligent movement machine : an ethological... Graziano, Michael S. A. QP383 .G78 2009May 29, 2009-June 5, 2009
Biology 4810 lectures, fall, 2008 [videorecording]
Biol 4810 2008: fall
Environmental biology : the conditions of life : Hilleman, Terry
QH541 .H534 2009
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