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2. Recent Additions to the Collection
3. Who's Publishing at Iowa State University?
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Parks Library will be hosting A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources. This free workshop will be presented by two NCBI training specialists. The course is scheduled for March 28 - 29, 2006. Watch for more details in late January.
2. Recent Additions to the Collection
Bioethics
Bioethics : an introduction for the
biosciences / Ben Mepham.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QH332 M47 2005
Conservation Biology - Biogeography
Nature-friendly communities : habitat
protection and land use / Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder.
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005
QH76 D84 2005
The biology of soil : a community and ecosystem approach / Richard D. Bardgett.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QH84.8 B35 2005
Biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation in northern Mexico / edited by Jean-Luc
E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos, Richard Stephen Felger.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QH107 B525 2005
State of Lake Michigan : ecology, health, and management / edited by T. Edsall
and M. Munawar.
[Burlington, Ont.] : Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society, 2005 (New
Delhi : Printed by Goodword Books)
QH104.5 M44 S72 2005
African biodiversity : molecules, organisms, ecosystems / [edited by] Bernhard
A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe.
by International Symposium on Tropical Biology (5th : 2004 : Bonn, Germany)
New York : Springer, c2005.
QH194 A36 2004
Microscopy
Molecular imaging : FRET microscopy and spectroscopy / edited by Ammasi Periasamy,
Richard N. Day.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press : Published for the American Physiological
Society, 2005.
QH212.F55 M64 2005
Physical principles of electron microscopy
: an introduction to TEM, SEM, and AEM / Ray F. Egerton.
New York : Springer Science+Business Media, c2005.
QH212 E4 E354x 2005
Bioinformatics - Proteomics
- DNA
Ontologies for bioinformatics / Kenneth Baclawski, Tianhua Niu.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
QH324.2 .B33 2006
Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and Bioconductor
/ editors, Robert Gentleman ... [et al.].
New York : Springer, c2005.
QH324.2 B548x 2005
Informatics in proteomics / edited by Sudhir Srivastava.
Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2005.
QP551 I46 2005
Analytical techniques in DNA sequencing / edited by Brian K. Nunnally.
Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
QP625 N89 A53 2005
Theoretical and experimental DNA computation / Martyn Amos.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.
QP625 N89 A56 2005
Population Biology - Evolution
- Ecology
Branching processes : variation, growth, and extinction of populations / Patsy
Haccou, Peter Jagers, Vladimir A. Vatutin.
by Haccou, Patsy.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005
QH352 H33x 2005
Systematics and the origin of species : on Ernst Mayr's 100th anniversary /
Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, and Francisco J. Ayala, editors.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.
QH380 S97 2005
Singularities : landmarks on the
pathways of life / Christian de Duve.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
QH325 .D418 2005
Energy : engine of evolution / Frank Niele.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005.
QH366.2 .N54 2005
Metacommunities : spatial dynamics and ecological communities / edited by Marcel
Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, and Robert D. Holt.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
QH541.15.S62 M48 2005
Aquatic food webs : an ecosystem approach / edited by Andrea Belgrano ... [et
al.].
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
QH541.5 W3 A68225 2004
Restoration ecology : the new frontier
/ edited by Jelte van Andel and James Aronson.
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
QH541.15.R45 R517 2006
Cell Biology - Cell Culture - Stem Cells
Culture of animal cells : a manual
of basic technique / R. Ian Freshney.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss, c2005
QH585.2 F74 2005
Stem cells : from bench to bedside
/ editors, Ariff Bongso & Eng Hin Lee ; forewords by Sydney Brenner &
Philip Yeo.
Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ ; London : World Scientific, c2005.
QH588.S83 B66 2005
Discovering cell mechanisms : the
creation of modern cell biology / William Bechtel.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
QH581.2 .B42 2006
Botany - Systematics
Evolutionary genetics of fungi / edited by Jianping Xu.
Wymondham, U.K. : Horizon Bioscience, c2005.
QK602 E96x 2005
Demons in Eden : the paradox of plant diversity / Jonathan Silvertown.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
QK46.5.D58 S55 2005
Plant species-level systematics : new perspectives on pattern & process
/ edited by Freek T. Bakker ... [et al.].
Ruggell, Liechtenstein : A.R.G. Gantner Verlag ; Koenigstein, Germany : Distributed
by Koeltz Scientific Books, c2005.
QK95 P547 2005
Introduction to the plant life of Southern California : coast to foothills /
Philip W. Rundel, Robert Gustafson.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
QK149 R86 2005
Forest climbing plants of West Africa : diversity, ecology and management /
edited by F. Bongers, M.P.E. Parren, D. Traoré.
Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2005.
QK393 .F67 2005
The meaning of trees : botany, history, healing, lore / by Fred Hageneder ;
with photographs by Edward Parker.
San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, 2005.
QK475 H174 2005
Vascular organization of angiosperms : a new vision / Jean-Pierre André.
Enfield, NH, USA : Science Publishers, c2005
QK725 A557 2005
Roots and soil management : interactions
between roots and the soil / co-editors: Richard W. Zobel, Sara F. Wright.
Madison, Wis. : American Society of Agronomy : Crop Science Society of America
: Soil Science Society of America c2005.
QK644 R6586x 2005
Insects
Insect phenotypic plasticity : diversity of responses / editors, T.N. Ananthakrishnan,
Douglas Whitman.
Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, c2005.
QL496.4 .I565 2005
Secret weapons : defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged
creatures / Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
QL496 .E42 2005
Microbiology
Biofilms, infection, and antimicrobial
therapy / edited by John L. Pace, Mark E. Rupp, and Roger G. Finch.
Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
QR100.8.B55 B565 2006
Oceans and health : pathogens in the marine environment / edited by Shimshon
Belkin and Rita R. Colwell.
New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, c2006.
QR106 .O244 2006
Phages : their role in bacterial pathogenesis and biotechnology / Matthew K.
Waldor, David I. Friedman, and Sankar L. Adhya, editors.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2005.
QR342 .P48 2005
Principles of molecular virology / Alan J. Cann.
by Cann, Alan
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005.
QR389 C36x 2005
3. Who's Publishing at Iowa State University?
The following citations were retrieved from PubMed. The following papers were published by faculty associated with the following departments or programs: Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology; Ecology, Evolutionary & Organismal Biology; and Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology; Interdepartmental Genetics; and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The papers were published between October 27, 2005 and January 3, 2006.
1: Johnson TJ, Siek KE, Johnson SJ,
Nolan LK.
DNA Sequence of a ColV Plasmid and Prevalence of Selected Plasmid-Encoded Virulence
Genes among Avian Escherichia coli Strains.
J Bacteriol. 2006 Jan;188(2):745-58.
PMID: 16385064
2: Kariyawasam S, Johnson TJ, Nolan
LK.
The pap Operon of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strain O1:K1 Is Located
on a Novel Pathogenicity Island.
Infect Immun. 2006 Jan;74(1):744-9.
PMID: 16369033
3: Madsen ML, Nettleton D, Thacker
EL, Edwards R, Minion FC.
Transcriptional Profiling of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae during Heat Shock Using
Microarrays.
Infect Immun. 2006 Jan;74(1):160-6.
PMID: 16368969
4: Du P, Gong J, Syrkin Wurtele E,
Dickerson JA.
Modeling gene expression networks using fuzzy logic.
IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern. 2005 Dec;35(6):1351-9.
PMID: 16366260
5: Carter C, Shafir S, Yehonatan
L, Palmer RG, Thornburg R.
A novel role for proline in plant floral nectars.
Naturwissenschaften. 2005 Dec 20;:1-7 [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16365739
6: Uthe JJ, Stabel TJ, Zhao SH, Tuggle
CK, Bearson SM.
Analysis of porcine differential gene expression following challenge with Salmonella
enterica serovar Choleraesuis using suppression subtractive hybridization.
Vet Microbiol. 2005 Dec 15; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16364571
7: Vincent AL, Thacker BJ, Halbur
PG, Rothschild MF, Thacker EL.
An investigation of susceptibility to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
virus between two genetically diverse commercial lines of pigs.
J Anim Sci. 2006 Jan;84(1):49-57.
PMID: 16361491
8: Kneller EL, Rakotondrafara AM,
Miller WA.
Cap-independent translation of plant viral RNAs.
Virus Res. 2005 Dec 14; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16360925
9: Zhang W, Deng H, Bao X, Lerach
S, Girton J, Johansen J, Johansen KM.
The JIL-1 histone H3S10 kinase regulates dimethyl H3K9 modifications and heterochromatic
spreading in Drosophila.
Development. 2006 Jan;133(2):229-35. Epub 2005 Dec 8.
PMID: 16339185
10: Uemura E, Greenlee HW.
Insulin regulates neuronal glucose uptake by promoting translocation of glucose
transporter GLUT3.
Exp Neurol. 2005 Dec 6; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16337941
11: Ding J, Hughes LM, Berleant D,
Fulmer AW, Wurtele ES.
PubMed Assistant: a biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search.
Bioinformatics. 2005 Dec 6; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16332704
12: Yoon SH, Robyt JF.
Optimized synthesis of specific sizes of maltodextrin glycosides by the coupling
reactions of Bacillus macerans cyclomaltodextrin glucanyltransferase.
Carbohydr Res. 2005 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16325787
13: Grapes L, Firat MZ, Dekkers JC,
Rothschild MF, Fernando RL.
Optimal haplotype structure for linkage disequilibrium-based fine mapping of
quantitative trait loci using identity-by-descent.
Genetics. 2005 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16322505
14: Dutca LM, Culver GM.
Regulation of rRNA processing: a role for a unique GTPase.
Mol Cell. 2005 Nov 23;20(4):497-9.
PMID: 16307913
15: Lerach S, Zhang W, Deng H, Bao
X, Girton J, Johansen J, Johansen KM.
JIL-1 kinase, a member of the male-specific lethal (MSL) complex, is necessary
for proper dosage compensation of eye pigmentation in Drosophila.
Genesis. 2005 Dec;43(4):213-5.
PMID: 16307450
16: Sparks ME, Brendel V.
Incorporation of splice site probability models for non-canonical introns improves
gene structure prediction in plants.
Bioinformatics. 2005 Nov 1;21 Suppl 3:iii20-iii30.
PMID: 16306388
17: Wilke VL, Conzemius MC, Rothschild
MF.
SNP detection and association analyses of candidate genes for rupture of the
cranial cruciate ligament in the dog.
Anim Genet. 2005 Dec;36(6):519-21. No abstract available.
PMID: 16293131
18: Hu ZL, Dracheva S, Jang W, Maglott
D, Bastiaansen J, Rothschild MF, Reecy JM.
A QTL resource and comparison tool for pigs: PigQTLDB.
Mamm Genome. 2005 Oct;16(10):792-800. Epub 2005 Oct 29.
PMID: 16261421
19: Bao X, Zhang W, Krencik R, Deng
H, Wang Y, Girton J, Johansen J, Johansen KM.
The JIL-1 kinase interacts with lamin Dm0 and regulates nuclear lamina morphology
of Drosophila nurse cells.
J Cell Sci. 2005 Nov 1;118(Pt 21):5079-87.
PMID: 16254246
20: Johnson TJ, Siek KE, Johnson
SJ, Nolan LK.
DNA sequence and comparative genomics of pAPEC-O2-R, an avian pathogenic Escherichia
coli transmissible R plasmid.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Nov;49(11):4681-8.
PMID: 16251312
21: Fu A, Park S, Rodermel S.
Sequences Required for the Activity of PTOX (IMMUTANS), a Plastid Terminal Oxidase:
IN VITRO AND IN PLANTA MUTAGENESIS OF IRON-BINDING SITES AND A CONSERVED SEQUENCE
THAT CORRESPONDS TO EXON 8.
J Biol Chem. 2005 Dec 30;280(52):42489-96. Epub 2005 Oct 25.
PMID: 16249174
22: Holmes KL, Culver GM.
Analysis of conformational changes in 16 S rRNA during the course of 30 S subunit
assembly.
J Mol Biol. 2005 Nov 25;354(2):340-57. Epub 2005 Oct 5.
PMID: 16246364
23: Vollbrecht E, Sigmon B.
Amazing grass: developmental genetics of maize domestication.
Biochem Soc Trans. 2005 Dec;33(Pt 6):1502-6.
PMID: 16246155
24: Naqvi SM, Harper A, Carter C,
Ren G, Guirgis A, York WS, Thornburg RW.
Nectarin IV, a potent endoglucanase inhibitor secreted into the nectar of ornamental
tobacco plants. Isolation, cloning, and characterization.
Plant Physiol. 2005 Nov;139(3):1389-400. Epub 2005 Oct 21.
PMID: 16244157
25: Adams C, Pitzer J, Minion FC.
In vivo expression analysis of the P97 and P102 paralog families of Mycoplasma
hyopneumoniae.
Infect Immun. 2005 Nov;73(11):7784-7.
PMID: 16239586
26: Serb JM, Oakley TH.
Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary
developmental biology.
Bioessays. 2005 Nov;27(11):1158-66.
PMID: 16237676
27: Harms HK, Paitz RT, Bowden RM,
Janzen FJ.
Age and season impact resource allocation to eggs and nesting behavior in the
painted turtle.
Physiol Biochem Zool. 2005 Nov-Dec;78(6):996-1004. Epub 2005 Aug 26.
PMID: 16228938
28: Zhao SH, Recknor J, Lunney JK,
Nettleton D, Kuhar D, Orley S, Tuggle CK.
Validation of a first-generation long-oligonucleotide microarray for transcriptional
profiling in the pig.
Genomics. 2005 Nov;86(5):618-25.
PMID: 16216716
29: Skaff DA, Kim CS, Tsai HJ, Honzatko
RB, Fromm HJ.
Glucose 6-phosphate release of wild-type and mutant human brain hexokinases
from mitochondria.
J Biol Chem. 2005 Nov 18;280(46):38403-9. Epub 2005 Sep 15.
PMID: 16166083
30: Yan A, Jernigan RL.
How do side chains orient globally in protein structures?
Proteins. 2005 Nov 15;61(3):513-22.
PMID: 16152644
31: Adams KL, Wendel JF.
Allele-specific, bidirectional silencing of an alcohol dehydrogenase gene in
different organs of interspecific diploid cotton hybrids.
Genetics. 2005 Dec;171(4):2139-42. Epub 2005 Sep 2.
PMID: 16143609
32: Xu M, Palmer RG.
Molecular mapping of k2 Mdh1-n y20, an unstable chromosomal region in soybean
[Glycine max (L.) Merr.].
Theor Appl Genet. 2005 Nov;111(8):1457-65. Epub 2005 Nov 10.
PMID: 16088398
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