Biology News & New Books List
February 2008
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- Spring Break Hours, March 8-16, 2008:
Saturdays - Sundays closed; Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm - EndNote Web introduction class, Wednesday, 3/19, 5:00-5:30pm, in the Arc, Level A, Olin Library and many more Olin Library Spring Research Workshops.
- Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles, Moore Auditorium (on Medical Campus), series of 3 workshops for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. Free but preregistration requested. Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Office of Post Graduate Affairs.
- Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement This news has been widely discussed this month, but I thought I needed to mention it in case some of you haven't heard about it. One blogger (T. Scott Plutchak) is "inclined to think that the Harvard vote may be more significant than the passage of the NIH policy." Here are a few links for more information: Chronicle of Higher Education News blog entry | The Case for Open Access (from The Crimson before the Faculty of Arts & Sciences passed the motion) | Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty (Harvard Univ. Gazette) | More on the Harvard OA mandate (Peter Suber's Open Access News) | Harvard adopts opt-out open-access policy (Nautilus, Nature Publishing Group blog)
- Is Springer Open Choice (at $3,000/article) required to comply with the NIH public access policy? NO! A few of you have mentioned receiving the promotion from Springer about their Open Choice option, so I thought it was important to write a bit about it. I like the summary that Peter Suber wrote: NIH-funded authors and fee-based OA journals. (Note: TA in the blog means toll-access, OA means open access) Please don't hesitate to ask Ruth Lewis or Cathy Sarli, Becker Library’s Scholarly Communications Specialist, if you are uncertain about how to comply with the NIH policy with one of your publications. We will be happy to find the necessary information.
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]).
- Aponte JC, Vaisberg AJ, Rojas R, Caviedes L, Lewis WH, Lamas G, Sarasara C, Gilman RH, Hammond GB. 2008. Isolation of cytotoxic metabolites from targeted peruvian amazonian medicinal plants. J Nat Prod 71:102-5. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Bekaert S, Storozhenko S, Mehrshahi P, Bennett MJ, Lambert W, Gregory JF 3rd, Schubert K, Hugenholtz J, Van Der Straeten D, Hanson AD. 2008. Folate biofortification in food plants. Trends Plant Sci. 13:28-35. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Bergman TJ, Phillips-Conroy JE, Jolly CJ. 2008. Behavioral variation and reproductive success of male baboons (Papio anubis x Papio hamadryas) in a hybrid social group. Am J Primatol 70:136-47. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Gifford ME, Herrel A, Mahler DL. 2008. The evolution of locomotor morphology, performance, and anti-predator behaviour among populations of Leiocephalus lizards from the Dominican Republic. Biol J Linnean Soc 93:445-456. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Halsey ME, Olsen KM, Taylor N, Chavarriaga-Aguirre P. 2008. Reproductive biology of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and isolation of experimental field trials. Crop Science 48:49-58. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers - WU does not subscribe.
- Hedtke SM, Zamudio KR, Phillips CA, Losos J, Brylski P. 2007. Conservation genetics of the endangered Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (Uma inornata). Herpetologica 63:411-420. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Liberton M, Pakrasi HB. 2008. Membrane systems in cyanobacteria, pp. 271-288 IN The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics and Evolution, ed. by E. Flores, A. Herrero. Horizon Scientific Press. More book info.
- Lough AN, Roark LM, Kato A, Ream TS, Lamb JC, Birchler JA, Newton KJ. 2008. Mitochondrial DNA transfer to the nucleus generates extensive insertion site variation in maize. Genetics 178:47-55. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; free 3 months after publication.
- Riddle NC, Elgin SCR. 2008. A role for RNAi in heterochromatin formation in Drosophila. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 320:185-209. PubMed abstract | Fulltext on Springerlink for subscribers.
- Roose JL, Pakrasi HB. 2008. The PSB27 protein facilitates manganese cluster assembly in photosystem II. J Biol Chem 283:4044-4050. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; free 1 year after publication.
- Sabri M, Caza M, Proulx J, Lymberopoulos MH, Brée A, Moulin-Schouleur M, Curtiss R 3rd, Dozois CM. 2008. Contribution of the SitABCD, MntH, and FeoB metal transporters to the virulence of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) O78 strain.Infect Immun 76:601-11. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
- Sanger TJ, Losos JB. 2007. The ontogeny of adaptive characters in Anolis habitat specialists. J Morphol 268:1128 (abstract only). Fulltext for subscribers -- this is all the abstracts in this issue.
- Sanger TJ, Pletscher S, Cheverud J. 2007. The relationship between embryonic, juvenile, and adult variation in murine long bones. J Morphol 268:1128 (abstract only). Fulltext for subscribers -- this is all the abstracts in this issue.
- Smith KG, Weldon C. 2007. A conceptual framework for detecting oral chytridiomycosis in tadpoles. Copeia (4):1024-1028. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers.
- Swingley WD, Chen M, Cheung PC, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Hao J, Honchak BM, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Miyashita H, Page L, Ramakrishna P, Satoh S, Sattley WM, Shimada Y, Taylor HL, Tomo T, Tsuchiya T, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Mimuro M, Blankenship RE, Touchman JW. 2008. Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2005-10. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication | In the news.
- Yu SM, Ko SS, Hong CY, Sun HJ, Hsing YI, Tong CG, Ho TH. 2007. Global functional analyses of rice promoters by genomics approaches. Plant Mol Biol 65:417-25. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
*** Indicates an addition or change to the Biology Electronic Journals page [ http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/ejournals.html ]
- ***Anatomical Sciences Education
- Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available during 2008-2009; Wiley.
- ***Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
- Full text, v.1779, 2008+; WU access only; Science Direct; formerly: BBA-Gene Structure and Expression.
- ***BMB Reports
- Full text, v.41, 2008+; freely available; formerly: Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
- ***BMC Medical Genomics
- Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; Biomed Central.
- ***Invasive Plant Science and Management
- Full text, v.1, 2008+; WU access only; BioOne.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography More info
Freely available: Scientific and common names of the reptiles and amphibians of North America explained
New Ebooks on ScienceDirect:
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.82: Red Cell Development
New Ebooks from Springer:
Alicyclobacillus: Thermophilic Acidophilic Bacilli
Mangroves and Halophytes: Restoration and Utilisation(Tasks for Vegetation Sciences, v.43)
Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis, v.2 (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, v.26)
A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics (Biosemiotics, v.2)
Micronutrient Deficiencies in Global Crop Production
Drug Testing in Alternate Biological Specimens
Genomics of Disease (Stadler Genetics Symposia Series)
Group B Coxsackieviruses (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.323)
RNA Interference (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.320)
Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding: Germplasm to Genomics
Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation
Plant Virus Evolution
Ecology of Social Evolution
Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems
The Glutamate Receptors
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neurotransmitter Systems
Mediterranean Island Landscapes: Natural and Cultural Approaches
Bacterial Biofilms (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.322)
The Paraoxonases: Their Role in Disease Development and Xenobiotic Metabolism (Proteins and Cell Regulation, v.6)
Cell Division Control in Plants (Plant Cell Monographs, v.9)
Print books - For more information on many of these books, please search the Catalog by title, keywords or author.
February 1, 2008 - February 8, 2008
Basic methods in microscopy : protocols and concepts...
QH207 .B27 2006
Bioeffects and therapeutic applications of... Habash, Riadh W. Y.
QP82.2.E43 H32 2008
San Diego County bird atlas Unitt, Philip.
QL684.C2 U57 2004
February 8, 2008 - February 15, 2008
Biology of turtles.
QL666.C5 B56 2008
Cycles of life [videorecording] : exploring biology - Energy in - energy out.
QK822 .E53 1994
Ecology for nonecologists. Spellman, Frank R.
QH541.13 .S64 2008
Fluorescing world of plant secreting cells. Roshchina, V. V.
QK844 .R67 2008
Mitochondria. Scheffler, Immo E.
QH603.M5 S34 2008
Sensory evolution on the threshold : adaptations ...
QL120 .S47 2008
February 15, 2008 - February 22, 2008
Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology
QH331 .C285 2007
Dawkins vs. Gould : survival of the fittest Sterelny, Kim.
QH360.5 .S75 2007
Gene silencing by RNA interference : technology and application
QH450 .G4635 2005
How and why species multiply : the radiation of Darwin's finches Grant, Peter
QL696.P246 G733 2008
Monkey trials and gorilla sermons : evolution and Christianity from Darwin to intelligent design Bowler, Peter J.
BS651 .B755 2007
Rocky Mountain mammals Armstrong, David Michael
QL719.C6 A75 2008
February 22, 2008 - February 29, 2008
Advances in marine biology.
Review serial v.53
Built by animals : the natural history of animal... Hansell, Michael H.
QL756 .H357 2007
Cell biologist's guide to modeling and... Holmes, Raquell M.
QH324.2 H65 2007
Dictionary of DNA and genome technology. Singleton, Paul.
QH442 .S548 2008
Evolutionary genomics and proteomics.
QH390 .E98 2008
Herpetological monograph.
QL640 .H423 2007 (no.21)
Life as it is : biology for the public sphere. Loomis, William F.
QH333 .L66 2008
Manipulative monkeys : the capuchins of Loma... Perry, Susan
QL737.P925 P47 2008
February 29, 2008 - March 7, 2008
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology.
Review Serial. v.48 (2008)
Biometry : the principles and practice of... Sokal, Robert R.
QH323.5 .S63 1995
Comparative genomics : basic and applied research.
QH447 .C6517 2008
Drosophila : a toolbox for the study of neurodegenerative...
RC394.D35 D76 2008
International review of cytology.
Review Serial. v.265 (2008)
Migration ecology of birds. Newton, Ian.
QL698.9 .N49 2008
Tropical conservation biology. Sodhi, Navjot S.
QH77.T78 S63 2007
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