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Biology News & New Books List

May 2009

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Proxy Server Login for Off-Campus Access to many resources below

**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 or Research Guides [Suggestions welcome!]**
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.
**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

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 2009

May 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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