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Biology News & New Books List

April 2008

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**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]).

**Recent Additions to Library Homepage [Suggestions welcome!]**
*** Indicates an addition or change to the Biology Electronic Journals page [ http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/ejournals.html ]
***Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Full text, v.1, 2003+; WU access only; Ecological Society of America.
GreenFILE
Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. More info.
***Molecular Cytogenetics
Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; BioMed Central.
**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Especially the "Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics" section of articles. More info.

New on ScienceDirect:
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.63, 2008
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.81, 2008: Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems
Advances in Genetics, v.61, 2008: Long-range control of gene expression
Methods in Enzymology, v.438, 2008: Small GTPases in Disease, Part A
Methods in Enzymology, v.440 (2008): Nitric Oxide, Part F
Methods in Enzymology, v.437 (2008): Globins and Other Nitric Oxide-Reactive Proteins, Part B
Methods in Cell Biology, v.86 (2008): Stem Cell Culture

Selected new titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE:
Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems
Computational Methods in Biomedical Research
Biogeography in a Changing World
Genetically Engineered Mice Handbook

New Ebooks from Springer:
Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics:Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
How the Immune System Recognizes Self and Nonself: Immunoreceptors and Their Signaling
Multiscale Problems in the Life Sciences: From Microscopic to Macroscopic(Lecture Notes in Mathematics, v.1940)
Plant Microtubules: Development and Flexibility (Plant cell monographs, v.11)
Stem Cells (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.174)
The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species(Forestry Sciences, v.79)
Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance
Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v. 326)
Statistical Design
Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook, 7th ed
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Development and Aging Changes in the Nervous System
Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (Developments in Hydrobiology, v.198)
Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences IV: Evolution and Ecology (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, v.1922)

Print books - For more information on many of these books, please search the Catalog by title, keywords or author.

April 4, 2008 - April 11, 2008
          
Annual review of physiology.                                              
    Review serial   v.70 (2008)            
Fundamentals of the stem cell debate : the scientific...                        
    QH588.S83 F86 2008                   
International review of cell and molecular biology.                        
    Review serial  v.266 (2008)               
International review of cytology.                                        
    Review serial  v.255 (2006)               
Mouse brain in stereotaxic coordinates.        Franklin, Keith B. J.  
    QL937 .F73 2008 4o                    
Natural world of Lewis and Clark.              Dalton, David A.       
    QH104.5.W4 D35 2008                   
Specialization, speciation, and radiation : the evolutionary...                        
    QL468.7 .S64 2008                     
Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental science.                        
    QH541.15.S68 L35 2007
		
April 11, 2008 - April 18, 2008
            
Eukaryotic cell cycle.                                                
    QH605 .E74 2008                      
Fundamentals of biochemistry : life at the...    Voet, Donald.          
    QD415 .V63 2008                      
Making of a tropical disease : a short history.   Packard, Randall M.
    RC160 .P33 2007                      
Molecular biology of the gene.                                            
    QH506 .M66414 2008                    
Panda's black box : opening up the intelligent...                       
    BS652 .P35 2007                      
Plant desiccation tolerance.                                              
    QK870 .P53 2007                    
Seed dispersal : theory and its application in...                        
    QK929 .S443 2007                      
Unravelling the algae : the past, present, and future...                    
    QK567 .U57 2007
		
April 18, 2008 -April 25, 2008

Biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina).                        
    QL666.C539 B56 2008                   
Janeway's immunobiology.                Murphy, Kenneth P.     
    QR181 .J37 2008                       
Methods for neural ensemble recordings.                                   
    QP376.5 .M47 2008                    
Origin of higher clades : osteology, myology...      Diogo, Rui.            
    QL618.2 .D56 2007                     
RNA and DNA editing : molecular mechanisms and ...                       
    QH450.25 .R565 2008                  
Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and...    Cummings, Claire Hope.
    S494.5.B563 C86 2008                  
What is life? : investigating the nature of life...    Regis, Edward.  
    QH501 .R434 2008
		
April 25, 2008 - May 2, 2008
          
Cell-free protein synthesis : methods and protocols.                       
    QP551 .C33 2008                      
Conservation of rare or little-known species : biological,...                       
    QH75 .C6814 2007                      
Evolutionary biology of bacterial and fungal pathogens.                        
    QR81.7 .E98 2008                     
Jungle bugs in the night : scientific adventure...   Purser, Bruce.         
    QL496 .P97 2007 4o                    
Myxobacteria : multicellularity and differentiation.                       
    QR82.M95 M98 2008 4o                 
Single-molecule techniques : a laboratory manual.                         
    QH506 .S546 2008

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