Biology News & New Books List

October 2011

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• Upcoming classes from the library: http://wulibraries.doattend.com/. Check back; classes are added often. If you have been using RefWorks you may want to check out one of our Zotero or Mendeley classes. Mendeley 101 will be offered November 7, 3-4 pm: http://mendeley-nov7-2011.doattend.com/. Zotero 101 will be offered Nov. 8 at noon: http://zotero-nov08-2011.doattend.com/.
• Best Sellers in Botany–Zoology: January to October 17, 2011 as identified by YBP Library Services
  1) The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution Long, John A. Johns Hopkins University Press 2011. ISBN 9780801896958. $65
  2) Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds Barrett, Louise Princeton University Press 2011. ISBN 9780691126449. $29.95
  3) Life in a Shell: A Physiologist's View of a Turtle Jackson, Donald C. Harvard University Press 2011. ISBN 9780674050341. $29.95
  4) Serpentine: The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System Harrison, Susan University of California Press 2011. ISBN 9780520268357. $70
  5) Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer & Build Goodfellow, Peter Princeton University Press 2011. ISBN 9780691148496. $27.95
  6) Reaching for the Sun: How Plants Work King, John Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN 9780521518048. $99
  7) Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter Prager, Ellen University of Chicago Press 2011. ISBN 9780226678726. $26
  8) The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World Roberts, Peter University of Chicago Press 2011. ISBN 9780226721170. $55
  9) Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices Over America's Wetlands Johnsgard, Paul A. University of Nebraska Press 2011. ISBN 9780803234963. $12.95
  10) Pollination and Floral Ecology Willmer, Pat Princeton University Press 2011. ISBN 9780691128610. $95
  11) Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World Zuk, Marlene Houghton Harcourt 2011. ISBN 9780151013739. $25
  12) Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals Shumaker, Robert W. Johns Hopkins University Press 2011. ISBN 9780801898532. $65
  13) Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Hanson, Thor Basic Books: Perseus 2011. ISBN 9780465020133. $25.99
  14) Frogs and Toads of the World Mattison, Chris Princeton University Press 2011. ISBN 9780691149684. $29.95
  15) The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature Ellis, Richard University Press of Kansas 2011. ISBN 9780700617722. $34.95
  16) Biology of Spiders Foelix, Rainer F. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199734825. $49.95
  17) Mindreading Animals: The Debate over What Animals Know About Other Minds Lurz, Robert W. MIT Press 2011. ISBN 9780262016056. $35
  18) The Moral Lives of Animals Peterson, Dale Bloomsbury 2011. ISBN 9781596914247. $26
  19) Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility Herberstein, Marie Elisabeth Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN 9780521765299. $120
  20) Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide Lumpkin, Susan Johns Hopkins University Press 2011. ISBN 9780801897887. $45
• Best Sellers in Environmental Science: December 2010 to Oct. 4, 2011 as identified by YBP Library Services
  1) Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America Freudenburg, William R. MIT Press 2011. ISBN 9780262015837. $18.95
  2) World on the Edge: How To Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse Also freely available at http://www.earth-policy.org/books/wote/wote_table_of_contents Brown, Lester R. W.W. Norton 2011. ISBN 9780393080292. $26.95
  3) The Economics of Enough: How To Run the Economy as if the Future Matters Coyle, Diane Princeton University Press 2011. ISBN 9780691145181. $24.95
  4) A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers Wohl, Ellen University of Chicago Press 2011. ISBN 9780226904788. $40
  5) The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence Graetz, Michael J. MIT Press 2011. ISBN 9780262015677. $29.95
  6) Listed: Dispatches from Americas Endangered Species Act Roman, Joe Harvard University Press 2011. ISBN 9780674047518. $27.95
  7) The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water Fishman, Charles Free Press: Simon & Schuster 2011. ISBN 9781439102077. $26.99
  8) Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage Laszlo, Chris Stanford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780804775540. $35
  9) The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Safina, Carl Henry Holt 2011. ISBN 9780805090406. $32
  10) America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? Blatt, Harvey MIT Press 2011. ISBN 9780262515917. $19.95
  11) A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change Gardiner, Stephen M. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780195379440. $35
  12) Atlas of Oceans: An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life Farndon, John Yale University Press 2011. ISBN 9780300167504. $50
  13) Let Them Eat Shrimp: The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea Warne, Kennedy Island Press 2011. ISBN 9781597266833. $25.95
  14) Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance Kraft, Michael E. MIT Press 2011. ISBN 9780262014953. $50
  15) First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement, 4th ed Kline, Benjamin Rowman & Littlefield 2011. ISBN 9781442203990. $19.95
  16) Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crisis [much, possibly all freely available at http://www.postcarbon.org/reader/downloads Heinberg, Richard Watershed Media 2010. ISBN 9780970950062. $24.95
  17) The Ecology of Place: Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding Billick, Ian University of Chicago Press 2010. ISBN 9780226050423. $120
  18) Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research Elliott, Kevin C. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199755622. $65
  19) Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto Hoffmann, Matthew J. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780195390087. $45
  20) G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology Slack, Nancy G. Yale University Press 2011. ISBN 9780300161380. $40

**Additions to Publications from WU Biology Department

• Aponte JC, Jin Z, Vaisberg AJ, Castillo D, Málaga E, Lewis WH, Sauvain M, Gilman RH, Hammond GB. 2011. Cytotoxic and Anti-infective Phenolic Compounds Isolated from Mikania decora and Cremastosperma microcarpum. Planta Med 2011 Sep;77(14):1597-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not have online fulltext access].
• Bandyopadhyay A, Elvitigala T, Welsh E, Stöckel J, Liberton M, Min H, Sherman LA, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Novel metabolic attributes of the genus cyanothece, comprising a group of unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. MBio 2(5). pii: e00214-11. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Brotosudarmo TH, Collins AM, Gall A, Roszak AW, Gardiner AT, Blankenship RE, Cogdell RJ. 2011. The light intensity at which cells are grown controls the type of peripheral light-harvesting complexes that are assembled in a purple photosynthetic bacterium. Biochem J 440(1):51-61. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Chung K, Tasaka M. 2011. RPT2a, a 26S proteasome AAA-ATPase, is directly involved in arabidopsis CC-NBS-LRR protein uni-1D-induced signaling pathways. Plant and Cell Physiology 52(9):1657-1664. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• George AA, Lyons-Warren AM, Ma X, Carlson BA. 2011. A diversity of synaptic filters are created by temporal summation of excitation and inhibition. J Neurosci 31(41):14721-34. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Haswell ES, Phillips R, Rees DC. 2011. Mechanosensitive channels: what can they do and how do they do it? Structure 19(10):1356-69. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Knight TM, Havens K, Vitt P. 2011. Will the Use of Less Fecund Cultivars Reduce the Invasiveness of Perennial Plants? BioScience 61(10):816–822. Freely available fulltext | Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers | In the News, WU Record.
• Kraft NJ, Comita LS, Chase JM, Sanders NJ, Swenson NG, Crist TO, Stegen JC, Vellend M, Boyle B, Anderson MJ, Cornell HV, Davies KF, Freestone AL, Inouye BD, Harrison SP, Myers JA. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of ? diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 333(6050):1755-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Molina J, Sikora M, Garud N, Flowers JM, Rubinstein S, Reynolds A, Huang P, Jackson S, Schaal BA, Bustamante CD, Boyko AR, Purugganan MD. 2011. Reply to Ge and Sang: A single origin of domesticated rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(39):E756. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Niedzwiedzki DM, Fuciman M, Kobayashi M, Frank HA, Blankenship RE. 2011. Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of the light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from the photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth Res 110(1):49-60. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Reece JS, Bowen BW, Smith DG, Larson A. 2011. Comparative phylogeography of four Indo-Pacific moray eel species (Muraenidae) reveals comparable ocean-wide genetic connectivity despite five-fold differences in available adult habitat. Marine Ecology Progress Series 437:269-277. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 5 years after publication [WU does not subscribe].
• Wu SZ, Ritchie JA, Pan AH, Quatrano RS, Bezanilla M. 2011. Myosin VIII Regulates Protonemal Patterning and Developmental Timing in the Moss Physcomitrella patens. Mol Plant 4(5):909-21. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Zhu C, Dixit R. 2011. Single Molecule Analysis of the Arabidopsis FRA1 Kinesin Shows that It Is a Functional Motor Protein with Unusually High Processivity. Mol Plant 4(5):879-85. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.

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

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics

Full text, v.1, 2011+; WU access only; Project Muse.

New York Review of Books

Full text, 1963+. This will be a handy source to read popular book reviews and essays. Reviews are keyword searchable. Enjoy!

Open Biology

Full text, v.1, 2011+; open access; Royal Society.

Viruses

Full text, v.1, 2009+; open access; MDPI and PubMed Central.

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

Ebooks

OpenHumanities Press (OHP), is pleased to announce the release of 21 open access books in its series Living Books About Life: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org. "These 'books about life' are themselves 'living', in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers...." Here are a few sample titles. Please tell Ruth Lewis which, if any, of these should be added to our catalog.
* Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars, edited by Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London)
* Bioethics: Life, Politics, Economics, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London)
* Biosemiotics: Nature, Culture, Science, Semiosis, edited by Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University)
* Cognition and Decision in Non-Human Biological Organisms, edited by Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)
* Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix, edited by Mark Amerika (University of Colorado at Boulder)
* Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents, edited by Gary Hall (Coventry University)
* Human Genomics: From Hypothetical Genes to Biodigital Materialisations, edited by Kate O’Riordan (Sussex University)
* Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, edited by Anna Munster (University of New South Wales)
* Neurofutures: Brain-Machine Interfaces and Collective Minds, edited by Timothy Lenoir (Duke University)
* Partial Life, edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia)
* Symbiosis: Ecologies, Assemblages and Evolution, edited by Janneke Adema and Pete Woodbridge (Coventry University)

At ScienceDirect:
Advances in Marine Biology, v.60, 2011
Advances in Botanical Research, v.59, 2011: Biosynthesis of Vitamins in Plants Part B
Methods in Enzymology, v.500: Methods in Systems Biology
Advances in Ecological Research, v.45: The Role of Body Size in Multispecies Systems
Advances in Genetics, v.74: The Genetics of Circadian Rhythms
Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, v.85: Computational chemistry methods in structural biology
Methods in Cell Biology, v.104: The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics 3rd Edition
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.76
Methods in Cell Biology, v.105: The Zebrafish: Disease Models and Chemical Screens, 3rd Edition

Selected From Becker Library ebooks - there are MANY more available:
Atlas of Sleep and Sleep Medicine
Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements, Second Edition
Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded
Principles and practice of sleep medicine, 5th ed.
Primer of Biostatistics, 6th ed, 2005 [please logoff when done; limited concurrent users]

New Ebooks from Springer:
NOTE: Supplementary materials released with the print books (CD-ROMs, for example) are made available to the purchasers of the e-books at http://extras.springer.com.
Because I get these lists from compilations at Springer, there are always newer books available (which I will post next month). If you are looking for a book from Springer or a Springer-related publisher, it never hurts to search at http://www.springerlink.com/books. We have not yet purchased the 2012 package, so books with 2012 copyright dates are not yet accessible to WU-users.
Animal Models of Movement Disorders, v.2 Emma L. Lane, Stephen B. Dunnett Neuromethods 62
Atlas of Woody Plants in China: Distribution and Climate Jingyun Fang, Zhiheng Wang, Zhiyao Tang
Biodiversity Hotspots: Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas Frank E. Zachos, Jan Christian Habel
Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician's Guide, 3rd ed Margaret M. Stark
Controlled Release in Oral Drug Delivery Clive G. Wilson, Patrick J. Crowley Advances in Delivery Science and Technology
Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon Stanley J. Kays
Epigenetics Protocols, 2nd ed Trygve O. Tollefsbol Methods in Molecular Biology™ 791
Food and fuel: The example of Brazil Marcos Fava Neves, Mairun Junqueira Alves Pinto, Marco Antonio Conejero, Vinicius Gustavo Trombin
Fundamentals of mold growth in indoor environments and strategies for healthy living Olaf C. G. Adan, Robert A. Samson
Game meat hygiene in focus: Microbiology, epidemiology, risk analysis and quality assurance P. Paulsen, A. Bauer, M. Vodnansky, R. Winkelmayer, F. J. M. Smulders
Gene Expression Profiling: Methods and Protocols Lorraine O'Driscoll Methods in Molecular Biology™ 784
Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment Johng S. Rhim, Richard Kremer Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 720
Knowledge in action: The search for collaborative research for sustainable landscape development Annemarie Paassen, Jolanda Berg, Eveliene Steingröver, Renate Werkman, Bas Pedroli Mansholt Publication Series 11
Molecular Chaperones: Methods and Protocols Stuart K. Calderwood, Thomas L. Prince Methods in Molecular Biology™ 787
Mood and Anxiety Related Phenotypes in Mice: Characterization Using Behavioral Tests, Volume II Todd D. Gould Neuromethods 63
Nanoproteomics Steven A. Toms, Robert J. Weil Methods in Molecular Biology™ 790
Neurodegeneration: Methods and Protocols Giovanni Manfredi, Hibiki Kawamata Methods in Molecular Biology™ 793
Neuropeptides: Methods and Protocols Adalberto Merighi Methods in Molecular Biology™ 789
NorFor - The Nordic feed evaluation system Harald Volden EAAP – European Federation of Animal Science 30
Nucleolus Mark O. J. Olson Protein Reviews 15
Protein Microarrays: Methods and Protocols Ulrike Korf Methods in Molecular Biology™ 785
RNA Infrastructure and Networks Lesley J. Collins Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 722
Seed Dormancy: Methods and Protocols Allison R. Kermode Methods in Molecular Biology™ 773
Single Molecule Analysis: Methods and Protocols Erwin J. G. Peterman, Gijs J. L. Wuite Methods in Molecular Biology™ 783
Sphingolipids and Metabolic Disease L. Ashley Cowart Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 721
Transformation and sustainability in agriculture: Connecting practice with social theory Sietze Vellema

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

Note: "In Process" titles may still be REQUESTED so the book will be held for you when it is available.

Annual review of biochemistry, v.80, 2011 | online version Palo Alto, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1932-
Annual review of genomics and human genetics, v.12, 2011 | online version Palo Alto, CA : Annual Reviews, c2000-
Annual review of phytopathology, v.49, 2011 | online version Palo Alto, Calif., Annual Reviews, inc.
Bioenergetics / Jeffrey W. Berkin, editor. Biochemistry research trends Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.
Developmental biology : a very short introduction / Lewis Wolpert. Very short introductions 280. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Drought and aquatic ecosystems : effects and responses / P. Sam Lake. Chichester, West Sussex Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
EMBOSS user's guide : practical bioinformatics / Peter Rice, Alan Bleasby, Jon Ison with contributions from Lisa Mullan, Guy Bottu. Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Epistemology of the cell : a systems perspective on biological knowledge / Edward R. Dougherty, Michael L. Bittner. IEEE Press series in biomedical engineering. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.
New perspectives on neurobehavioral evolution / issue editors, John Irwin Johnson, H. Philip Zeigler, and Patrick R. Hof. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 1225. Boston, Mass. : Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011.
Origins of evolutionary innovations : a theory of transformative change in living systems / Andreas Wagner. Oxford biology. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pillars of evolution : fundamental principles of the eco-evolutionary process / Douglas W. Morris, Per Lundberg. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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