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Save the date!!

On Thursday, April 5 and Friday, April 6, 2007, two biologists from the User Services Staff at the NCBI will be at Iowa State University. The Library is sponsoring four NCBI mini-courses. The following courses will be offered: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences; Identification of Disease Genes; BLAST Quick Start; and Structure Analysis Quick Start. Each mini-course consists of a 1-hour lecture and a 1 1/2 hour computer lab session. Details regarding registration will be released in February.

1. New Journals: Nature Chemical Biology and Nature Nanotechnology
2. New Open Access Journal: BMC Systems Biology
3. New Books at Parks Library
4. Biosis Previews: Interface change!
5. Encyclopedia of Statistical Science: New electronic reference book!
6. News from the NCBI
7. Who's Publishing at ISU?
8. Websites of Interest - Interactive Animations; LabWrite; Coral Reef Ecosystem Assessment and Monitoring Database

New Journals

• Nature Chemical Biology
  
• Nature Nanotechnology

You can access both of these journals via the catalog or the e-journals list.

BMC Systems Biology

BioMed Central recently launched a new open access, peer-reviewed journal, BMC Systems Biology.

From the BioMed Central website:

"BMC Systems Biology is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on systems-level analysis of biological events, whether experimental or theoretical, at the level of molecules, cells or organisms. The journal especially welcomes quantitative analyses and those that integrate different levels of information to understand how biological systems function or can be perturbed, as well articles involving the modeling or engineering of biological systems, and synthetic biology.

Press Release - January 8, 2007

New Books at Parks Library

The following books were acquired between November 12, 2006 and January 7, 2007.

SCIENCE - GENERAL

Q125 .B2925 2006 The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science /
Q125 H264 2005 The story of science : Newton at the center /
Q127.C5 E46 2006 A cultural history of modern science in China /
Q127.E8 K75 2006 American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe /
Q127 G4 R47 2006 Repositioning Victorian sciences : shifting centres in nineteenth-century scientific thinking /
Q127 G7 G73x 2006 Explaining the cosmos : the Ionian tradition of scientific philosophy /
Q127.U6 S58 2006 Undermining science : suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration /
Q130 B56x 2006 Biological, social, and organizational components of success for women in academic science and engineering : report of a workshop /
Q143 H9 S24 2006 The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism /
Q158.5 B37x 2006 A student's guide to natural science /
Q158.5 H385 2007 Middle world : the restless heart of matter and life /
Q172 E36 2006 The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny /
Q175 .G48899 2006 Scientific perspectivism /
Q175 .H4973 2006 History, historicity and science /
Q175.35 .A35 2006 Junk science : how politicians, corporations, and other hucksters betray us /
Q175.35 .C37 2006 Times of triumph, times of doubt : science and the battle for the public trust /
Q180.55 V6 R67x 2006 Survival skills for scientists /
Q223 .M67 2006 Speaking about science : a manual for creating clear presentations /
Q223 S77 2006 Strategies for preservation of and open access to scientific data in China : summary of a workshop /
Q225 K48 2006 Embargoed science /

CHROMATOGRAPHY - SPECTROSCOPY

QD79 C4 B57 2006 Validating chromatographic methods : a practical guide /
QD95.5 S72 B76x 2006 Automatic autocorrelation and spectral analysis /
QD96.F56 G45 2006 Handbook of single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy /
QD96 F56 L34 2006 Principles of fluorescence spectroscopy /
QD96 L3 L353 2006 Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) : fundamentals and applications /

RADIUM - HISTORY OF THE PERIODIC TABLE

QD181 R1 H37x 2005 Deadly sunshine : the history and fatal legacy of radium /
QD467 .S345 2007 The periodic table : its story and its significance /

CHARLES DARWIN - GREGOR MENDEL - STEPHEN JAY GOULD - CONSERVATION - NATURAL HISTORY

QH15 K64 2006 All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 /
QH31 D2 L48 2006 Darwin loves you : natural selection and the re-enchantment of the world /
QH31 D2 Q35 2006 The reluctant Mr. Darwin : an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution /
QH31 L618 C37 2005 The wisdom of small farms and local food : Aldo Leopold's land ethic and sustainable agriculture /
QH31 M45 M39 2006 Gregor Mendel : planting the seeds of genetics /
QH31 S185 A3 2006 Writing naturally : a memoir /
QH75 P78 2005 The protected landscape approach : linking nature, culture and community /
QH77 G3 U35 2006 The green and the brown : a history of conservation in Nazi Germany /
QH81 G6733 2006 The richness of life : the essential Stephen Jay Gould /
QH91.8 E87 J66 2006 Marine eutrophication in perspective : on the relevance of ecology for environmental policy /
QH96.8 P43 P47 2005 Periphyton : ecology, exploitation and management /
QH104 F732 2006 Nature's restoration : people and places on the front lines of conservation /
QH105 C2 S29 2006 Northwest California : a natural history /
QH105 M4 T73 2006 Sippewissett, or, Life on a salt marsh /
QH105 P4 O65 2006 The Poconos : an illustrated natural history guide /
QH193 B65 G37 2006 Wild Borneo : the wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan /
QH195 S6 F6813x 2005 South Africa : the wild paradise /
QH195 V5 A93x 2006 Lake Victoria : ecology, resources, environment /

MICROSCOPY

QH212 S33 F68 2006 Scanning probe microscopy : atomic scale engineering by forces and currents /
QH212 S33 S33x 2006 Scanning probe microscopies beyond imaging : manipulation of molecules and nanostructures /
QH224 H36 2006 Handbook of biological confocal microscopy /

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY - COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY - SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

QH323.5 B43 2006 Mathematical modeling of complex biological systems : a kinetic theory approach /
QH323.5 C69 2006 A course in mathematical biology : quantitative modeling with mathematical and computational methods /
QH323.5 .M35 2007 Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology /
QH324.2 A46 2006 An introduction to systems biology : design principles of biological circuits /
QH324.2 H38 2006 Introduction to computational biology : an evolutionary approach /

EVOLUTION - GENETICS - STEM CELL RESEARCH - CELLULAR BIOLOGY

QH325 U46 2006 Intelligent life in the universe : principles and requirements behind its emergence /
QH331 H3633 2006b Animate earth : science, intuition and Gaia /
QH344 .B53 2007 Biogeochemistry of estuaries /
QH351 E4 2006 The vortex of life : nature's patterns in space and time /
QH366.2 .P545 2006 Making sense of evolution : the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology /
QH366.2 S59x 2006 The science of evolution and the myth of creationism : knowing what's real and why it matters /
QH371.3.M37 N69 2006 Evolutionary dynamics : exploring the equations of life /
QH375 .A78 2006 Creatures of accident : the rise of the animal kingdom /
QH421 .A76 2006 Evolution through genetic exchange /
QH438.7 D43 2006 Genetics and Christian ethics /
QH442.2 L56x 2006 Multiplicity yours : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine /
QH442.2 M257 2006 Mammalian and avian transgenesis--new approaches /
QH457 G458 2006 Genes, behavior, and the social environment : moving beyond the nature/nurture debate /
QH501 .N633 2006 The music of life : biology beyond the genome /
QH506 .R654 2006 Darwinian reductionism, or, How to stop worrying and love molecular biology /
QH509 E65x 2006 Epithelial anion transport in health and disease : the role of the SLC26 transporters family /
QH581.2 I93x 2006 Mathematical models of the cell and cell associated objects /
QH588.S83 H47 2006 Stem cell wars : inside stories from the frontlines /
QH588 S83 S74 2006 Stem cell transplantation : biology, processing, and therapy /
QH603.C96 C962 2006 Cytoskeletal mechanics : models and measurements /

ECOLOGY

QH541 .W42 2006 The myth of progress : toward a sustainable future /
QH541 .W455 2006 Fundamental processes in ecology : an earth systems approach /
QH541.15 C44 M85 2006 Chemical ecology of vertebrates /
QH541.15.L35 M43 2006 Measuring landscapes : a planner's handbook /
QH541.15 M3 G73 2006 Structural equation modeling and natural systems /
QH541.15 S68 F79 2006 Stable isotope ecology /
QH541.15 S95 E26 2006 Ecological census techniques : a handbook /
QH541.5 S35 B76 2006 The ecology of sandy shores /

PLANTS

QK46.5 D58 I64 2006 Plants : evolution and diversity /
QK99 P35x 2003 Medicinal plants of Asian origin and culture /
QK112 U535x 1986 Sagebrush wildflowers /
QK139 S77 1988 Forest wildflowers : showy wildflowers of the woods, mountains, and forests of the northern Rocky Mountain states /
QK149 B38 1982 Pocket flora of the redwood forest /
QK167 K47x 2006 Trees of Michigan, including tall shrubs /
QK495 G74 I58x 2001 Triticeae IV /
QK495 O64 B7383 2006 Wild orchids of the Canadian Maritimes and Northern Great Lakes Region /
QK605 M55 2006 North American mushrooms : a field guide to edible and inedible fungi /
QK644 .G74 2006 Plant roots : growth, activity, and interaction with soils /
QK646 S44 2006 Atlas of woody plant stems : evolution, structure, and environmental modifications /
QK725 .C34 2006 Dictionary of plant tissue culture /
QK753.E8 E849 2006 Ethylene action in plants /
QK867 H35 2007 Handbook of plant nutrition /
QK938 T34 P59x 1995 Plants of the western boreal forest & aspen parkland /

ZOOLOGY - REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS - BIRDS

QL45.2 M374 2006 Altruistic armadillos, zenlike zebras : a menagerie of 100 favorite animals /
QL76.5 U6 D66 2006 The politics of zoos : exotic animals and their protectors /
QL82 A17 2004 2004 IUCN red list of threatened species : a global species assessment /
QL83.2 .C852 2006 Through animals' eyes, again : stories of wildlife rescue /
QL85 F72 2006 Animal nation : the true story of animals and Australia /
QL89.2 S2 M45 2006 Sasquatch : legend meets science /
QL228 M39 G66 2006 Jungle of the Maya /
QL391 N4 G47 2006 Functional and detailed morphology of the Tylenchida (Nematoda) /
QL391.P7 P368 2006 Parasitic flatworms : molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology and physiology /
QL568 M46 C45x 2005 Melittidae of Poland (Hymenoptera; Apoidea; Antophila) : their biodiversity and biology /
QL606.52 G74 E36 1997 Ecology and conservation of Great Plains vertebrates /
QL628 C2 M37 2006 Field guide to freshwater fishes of California /
QL661 I6 A95x 2006 Taxonomy, life history and conservation of giant reptiles in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) /
QL662 A353 S63 2006 Reptiles and amphibians of East Africa /
QL662 E3 B34x 2006 A guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt /
QL666 C5 B57 2006 Turtles of the world /
QL673 .B44 2006 Birds of the world /
QL673 B935x 2006 Birds : a visual guide /
QL677.78 .B55 2006 Migrating raptors of the world : their ecology & conservation /
QL677.79.F55 R66 2006 Flightless birds /
QL684 A4 B49 2006 Arctic wings : birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /
QL684 O3 Z53 2006 Letters from Eden : a year at home, in the woods /
QL685.5 M37 G53x 2006 Gibson's guide to bird watching & conservation /
QL687 A1 P47 2006 Birds of Mexico and Central America /
QL690 A1 C68x 2005 Collins birds : a complete guide to all British and European species /
QL694.O25 S73 2006 Extinction & biogeography of tropical Pacific birds /
QL694.5 C53x 2006 Field guide to the birds of the Atlantic islands /
QL696 C63 B58 2006 Pigeons : the fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird /
QL696 F3 S6784 2006 Raptors of North America : natural history and conservation /
QL696 S8 W35 2006 Owls (Strigiformes) : annotated and illustrated checklist /
QL697 G78 2006 Ptilochronology : feather time and the biology of birds /
QL698.5 B45x 2006 Bird songs : 250 North American birds in song /
QL698.9 S65x 1998 Solve the crime, save the song of spring! : neotropical migratory birds and their midwestern connections /
QL737 C23 F78 2006 The man-eaters of Eden : life and death in Kruger National Park /
QL737 C23 G794x 2006 Tiger /
QL737 C23 P29x 2006 Tigers in red weather : a quest for the last wild tigers /
QL737.C25 K58 2007 The natural history of weasels and stoats : ecology, behavior, and management /
QL737.C25 K785 2006 Otters : ecology, behaviour, and conservation /
QL737 C27 G478x 2006 Giant pandas : biology, veterinary medicine and management /
QL737 C4 D27x 2006 Whale watcher : a global guide to watching whales, dolphins and porpoises in the wild /
QL737 C5 M363 2006 Bats of Florida /
QL737 M3 M345 2006 Marsupials /
QL737 P9 P685 2006 Primates of western Uganda /
QL737.P93 R47 2006 Reproduction and fitness in baboons : behavioral, ecological, and life history perspectives /
QL737 P95 R56 2006 Ringtailed lemur biology : Lemur catta in Madagascar /
QL737.P96 P738 2007 Primate perspectives on behavior and cognition /
QL737 R666 L36x 2006 Rat : how the world's most notorious rodent clawed its way to the top /
QL737.U55 H43 2006 Deer of the Southwest : a complete guide to the natural history, biology, and management of southwestern mule deer and white-tailed deer /

HIBERNATION - DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

QL755 .R66 2006 Hibernation /
QL755.5 .R66 2006 Nocturnal animals /
QL761 F46 2006 Female infidelity and paternal uncertainty : evolutionary perspectives on male anti-cuckoldry tactics /
QL761 H657 2006 Homosexual behaviour in animals : an evolutionary perspective /
QL775.5 .D84 2006 The altruism equation : seven scientists search for the origins of goodness /
QL799 .B66 2006 Why size matters : from bacteria to blue whales /
QL955 G48 2006 Developmental biology /
QL955 S85 1964 Growth and development.
QM117 R37 2007 Poster child : a memoir /
QM535 C59 2006 Perspectives on the face /
QP88.5 J33 2006 Skin : a natural history /
QP102 A54 2007 Angiogenesis : from basic science to clinical applications /

FUNCTIONAL FOODS - NUTRACEUTICALS

QP144 F56 L36 2005 Fish, Omega 3 and human health /
QP144 F85 F85 2007 Functional food ingredients and nutraceuticals : processing technologies /
QP144 V44 L63 2006 Local Mediterranean food plants and nutraceuticals /

HEALTH & FITNESS - EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY - NEUROSCIENCE - BIOMIMETICS

QP251 C616 2006 Generation : the seventeenth-century scientists who unraveled the secrets of sex, life, and growth /
QP301 H634 2006 Norms for fitness, performance, and health /
QP301 M375 2007 Exercise physiology : energy, nutrition, and human performance /
QP334 J66 2006 Human hand function /
QP376 B88 2006 Rhythms of the brain /
QP376 R47285 2006 The naked brain : how the emerging neurosociety is changing how we live, work, and love /
QP402 B56 2006 Biology of personality and individual differences /
QP445 J46 2006 Clocking the mind : mental chronometry and individual differences /
QP447 H36 2006 Perceptual coherence : hearing and seeing /
QP517 B56 B56 2006 Biomimetics : biologically inspired technologies /

BIOCHEMISTRY - PROTEOMICS - GLYCOBIOLOGY - LIPIDS - SPORTS NUTRITION

QP517 M3 D57 2006 Discovering biomolecular mechanisms with computational biology /
QP517 S83 C57x 2006 Cis-trans isomerization in biochemistry /
QP517 T48 K87 2006 The thermodynamic machinery of life /
QP532 B575x 2006 Bioorganometallics : biomolecules, labeling, medicine /
QP535 N1 N5475 2006 Nitric oxide, cell signaling, and gene expression /
QP551 P693 2007 Process scale bioseparations for the biopharmaceutical industry /
QP551 R278x 2006 Protein biochemistry and proteomics /
QP551 V43 2006 Proteomics for biological discovery /
QP572 P4 H36x 2006 Handbook of biologically active peptides /
QP624 C37 2006 The making of the fittest : DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution /
QP632 B3 C65 2006 The comprehensive sourcebook of bacterial protein toxins /
QP702 G577 T39 2006 Introduction to glycobiology /
QP751 A456 2005 Analysis of lipid oxidation /
QP771 S68 2006 Sports nutrition : vitamins and trace elements /

MICROBIOLOGY

QR46 A85 2006 Handbook of media for clinical microbiology /
QR75 K63x 2006 The bacteria : their origin, structure, function and antibiosis /
QR84 H673x 2006 Alkaliphiles : genetic properties and applications of enzymes /
QR97 A3 A33 2005 Adaptation to life at high salt concentrations in archaea, bacteria, and eukarya /
QR351 M345x 2006 Multiplication of RNA plant viruses /

Biosis Previews

Biosis Previews has moved to the ISI Web of Knowledge interface. Biosis Previews covers virtually every life science discipline: agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology.

With the move to this interface, it is now possible to save searches and set up automatic email alerts. If you would like to have an overview of Biosis Previews and its search features, please contact me. I would be happy to provide a short presentation to your lab group.

New Electronic Reference Book

The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2nd ed. is available electronically via the catalog.

Description from the Wiley website:

"The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition covers as much statistical content as possible in a handy, readily accessible manner. This second edition collects the entire original edition, plus supplements and updates in one searchable, continuous online product. New methodologies, written by the world’s leaders in statistics, are introduced in an easy-to-read format, accessible by a powerful search engine. Extensions of existing articles have also been incorporated in an effort to showcase the fluidity of the field. Thorough cross-referencing and bibliographies facilitate quick access to specific information and provide an indispensable platform for further study and research. There is no such compendium of information under one cover available today!"

News from the NCBI

Entrez Gene

"In the interest of providing more information about the genomic context of genes, Entrez Gene will start to report all RefSeqs (genomic, RNA and protein, as appropriate) from the last time a gene was annotated by NCBI. In other words, if a gene model is discontinued, the model gene will be reported as discontinued, but the link to its last annotation will be provided. Similarly, if a gene was annotated in a previous build, but not the current build, the location on the previous build will be reported.

Previously a 'Genomic regions, transcripts, and products' section was reported only for current annotation; the scope has now increased to 'most recent annotation'. The 'build' and build version will be reported explicitly in the hope of making it clear why the link points to a genomic RefSeq, or an annotation, that is no longer current.

This functionality will be made public in the next few days. We hope this will make it easier for you all to locate information about your favorite (but no longer current) model genes and RefSeqs.

NOTE: This implementation is not complete. We are phasing in the function with new annotation releases and all historical data will not be restored. As always, you can retrieve any discontinued RefSeq if you know the accession and version of the record."

New NCBI Database

dbGaP Genome Wide Association Database

The following text is from the dbGaP highlight on NCBI home page:

"NCBI's dbGAP (database of Genotype and Phenotype) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gap] provides data
from the Genome Wide Association (GWA) studies. The resource is intended to help elucidate the link between genes and disease. For each study, users have access to detailed information about the phenotypic variables measured and pre-computed associations between the subjects' phenotypes and genotypes."

Press release

To read more about GWA projects, see NCBI's GWA resource page

Who's Publishing at ISU?

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 added to PubMed between November 22, 2006 and January 15, 2007.

Ye X, Brown SR, Nones K, Coutinho LL, Dekkers JC, Lamont SJ.
Associations of myostatin gene polymorphisms with performance and mortality traits in broiler chickens.
Genet Sel Evol. 2007 Jan-Feb;39(1):73-89. Epub 2007 Jan 11.
PMID: 17212949 [PubMed - in process]

Abraham KJ, Totir LR, Fernando RL.
Improved techniques for sampling complex pedigrees with the Gibbs sampler.
Genet Sel Evol. 2007 Jan-Feb;39(1):27-38. Epub 2007 Jan 11.
PMID: 17212946 [PubMed - in process]

Cao X, Costa LM, Biderre-Petit C, Kbhaya B, Dey N, Perez P, McCarty DR, Gutierrez-Marcos JF, Becraft PW.
Abscisic Acid and Stress Signals Induce Viviparous1 (Vp1) Expression in Seed and Vegetative Tissues of Maize.
Plant Physiol. 2007 Jan 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17208960 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Peleshanko S, Anderson KD, Goodman M, Determan MD, Mallapragada SK, Tsukruk VV.
Thermoresponsive Reversible Behavior of Multistimuli Pluronic-Based Pentablock
Copolymer at the Air-Water Interface.
Langmuir. 2007 Jan 2;23(1):25-30.
PMID: 17190480 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Banerjee AK, Chatterjee M, Yu Y, Suh SG, Miller WA, Hannapel DJ.
Dynamics of a Mobile RNA of Potato Involved in a Long-Distance Signaling Pathway.
Plant Cell. 2006 Dec 22; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17189340 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Su CC, Shi F, Gu R, Li M, McDermott G, Yu EW, Zhang Q.
Preliminary structural studies of the transcriptional regulator CmeR from Campylobacter jejuni.
Acta Crystallograph Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Jan 1;63(Pt 1):34-6.
Epub 2006 Dec 16.
PMID: 17183170 [PubMed - in process]

Foote MR, Nonnecke BJ, Beitz DC, Waters WR.
High growth rate fails to enhance adaptive immune responses of neonatal calves and is associated with reduced lymphocyte viability.
J Dairy Sci. 2007 Jan;90(1):404-17.
PMID: 17183108 [PubMed - in process]

Huang X, Brutlag DL.
Dynamic use of multiple parameter sets in sequence alignment.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Dec 19; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17182633 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Jannink JL.
Identifying QTL by Genetic Background Interactions in Association Studies.
Genetics. 2006 Dec 18; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17179077 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Yoo SH, Keppel C, Spalding M, Jane JL.
Effects of growth condition on the structure of glycogen produced in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2006 Nov 28; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17175020 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Cocciolone SM, Nettleton D, Snook ME, Peterson T.
Transformation of maize with the p1 transcription factor directs production of silk maysin, a corn earworm resistance factor, in concordance with a hierarchy
of floral organ pigmentation.
Plant Biotechnol J. 2005 Mar;3(2):225-35.
PMID: 17173622 [PubMed - in process]

Liu Y, Leal NA, Sampson EM, Johnson CL, Havemann GD, Bobik TA.
PduL is an Evolutionarily Distinct Phosphotransacylase Involved in B12-Dependent 1,2-Propanediol Degradation by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2.
J Bacteriol. 2006 Dec 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17158662 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Wu D, Cui F, Jernigan R, Wu Z.
PIDD: database for Protein Inter-atomic Distance Distributions.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D202-7. Epub 2006 Dec 6.
PMID: 17151078 [PubMed - in process]

Ohtsu K, Takahashi H, Schnable PS, Nakazono M.
Cell type-specific gene expression profiling in plants by using a combination of laser microdissection and high-throughput technologies.
Plant Cell Physiol. 2006 Dec 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17148694 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Haussmann MF, Winkler DW, Vleck CM.
Longer telomeres associated with higher survival in birds.
Biol Lett. 2005 Jun 22;1(2):212-4.
PMID: 17148169 [PubMed - in process]

Fang F, Ding J, Minin VN, Suchard MA, Dorman KS.
cBrother: relaxing parental tree assumptions for Bayesian recombination detection.
Bioinformatics. 2006 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17145740 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Xu M, Ross Wilderman P, Morrone D, Xu J, Roy A, Margis-Pinheiro M, Upadhyaya NM, Coates RM, Peters RJ.
Functional characterization of the rice kaurene synthase-like gene family.
Phytochemistry. 2006 Nov 30; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17141283 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Sriram G, Gonzalez-Rivera O, Shanks JV.
Determination of biomass composition of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots for metabolic flux analysis.
Biotechnol Prog. 2006 Nov-Dec;22(6):1659-63.
PMID: 17137315 [PubMed - in process]

Yoon JM, Oliver DJ, Shanks JV.
Phytotransformation of 2,4-dinitrotoluene in arabidopsis thaliana: toxicity,fate, and gene expression studies in vitro.
Biotechnol Prog. 2006 Nov-Dec;22(6):1524-31.
PMID: 17137297 [PubMed - in process]

Abasht B, Dekkers JC, Lamont SJ.
Review of quantitative trait loci identified in the chicken.
Poult Sci. 2006 Dec;85(12):2079-96.
PMID: 17135661 [PubMed - in process]

Lamont SJ.
Perspectives in chicken genetics and genomics.
Poult Sci. 2006 Dec;85(12):2048-9.
PMID: 17135658 [PubMed - in process]

Hu ZL, Fritz ER, Reecy JM.
AnimalQTLdb: a livestock QTL database tool set for positional QTL information mining and beyond.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D604-9. Epub 2006 Nov 29.
PMID: 17135205 [PubMed - in process]

McElroy JP, Zhang W, Koehler KJ, Lamont SJ, Dekkers JC.
Comparison of methods for analysis of selective genotyping survival data.
Genet Sel Evol. 2006 Nov-Dec;38(6):637-55. Epub 2006 Nov 28.
PMID: 17129564 [PubMed - in process]

Bobe G, Ametaj BN, Young JW, Anderson LL, Beitz DC.
Exogenous glucagon effects on health and reproductive performance of lactating dairy cows with mild fatty liver.
Anim Reprod Sci. 2006 Nov 23; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17126505 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Peterson AG, Oliver DJ.
Leaf-targeted phytochelatin synthase in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Physiol Biochem. 2006 November - December;44(11-12):885-892. Epub 2006 Nov 7.
PMID: 17123825 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Yoon SH, Bruce Fulton D, Robyt JF.
Formation of covalent beta-linked carbohydrate-enzyme intermediates during the reactions catalyzed by alpha-amylases.
Carbohydr Res. 2007 Jan 15;342(1):55-64. Epub 2006 Nov 6.
PMID: 17123489 [PubMed - in process]

Lonergan SM, Stalder KJ, Huff-Lonergan E, Knight TJ, Goodwin RN, Prusa KJ, Beitz DC.
Influence of lipid content on pork sensory quality within pH classification.
J Anim Sci. 2006 Dec 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17121979 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Rothschild MF, Van Cleave PS, Glenn KL, Carlstrom LP, Ellinwood NM.
Association of MITF with white spotting in Beagle crosses and Newfoundland dogs.
Anim Genet. 2006 Dec;37(6):606-7. No abstract available.
PMID: 17121617 [PubMed - in process]

Determan MD, Cox JP, Mallapragada SK.
Drug release from pH-responsive thermogelling pentablock copolymers.
J Biomed Mater Res A. 2006 Nov 21; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17120218 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Schlueter SD, Wilkerson MD, Dong Q, Brendel V.
xGDB: open-source computational infrastructure for the integrated evaluation and analysis of genome features.
Genome Biol. 2006 Nov 20;7(11):R111 [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17116260 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Carter C, Healy R, O'tool NM, Naqvi SM, Ren G, Park S, Beattie GA, Horner HT, Thornburg RW.
Tobacco Nectaries Express a Novel NADPH Oxidase Implicated in the Defense of
Floral Reproductive Tissues against Microorganisms.
Plant Physiol. 2007 Jan;143(1):389-99. Epub 2006 Nov 17.
PMID: 17114277 [PubMed - in process]

Eucher JN, Uemura E, Sakaguchi DS, Greenlee MH.
Amyloid-beta peptide affects viability but not differentiation of embryonic and adult rat hippocampal progenitor cells.
Exp Neurol. 2006 Nov 15; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17112517 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Mukerjea R, Slocum G, Robyt JF.
Determination of the maximum water solubility of eight native starches and the solubility of their acidic-methanol and -ethanol modified analogues.
Carbohydr Res. 2007 Jan 15;342(1):103-10. Epub 2006 Nov 1.
PMID: 17112491 [PubMed - in process]

Websites of Interest

Looking for animations to supplement course material?

Check out Interactive Animations - a collections of animations that accompany the text Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry, 2nd ed. by Rodney Boyer. Topics covered include: cellular transport, DNA replication, photosynthesis, and protein folding.

Interested in learning how students can write better lab reports?

LabWrite - a resource for helping students learn about writing lab reports

"LabWrite is an online resource designed to help students take full advantage of one of the most important activities for learning in the sciences—writing good lab reports. But LabWrite is not just about writing lab reports. It shapes the entire lab experience as a learning experience by structuring each lab into four stages that provide the foundation for the students’ website: PreLab, InLab, PostLab, and LabCheck. We will describe these stages first and then the LabWrite Resources and LabWrite Modes, the application that allows students to work in all the stages online."

LabWrite was discussed in the Journal of College Science Teaching. This journal is available via the e-journals list.

LabWrite: transforming lab reports from busy work to meaningful learning opportunities. Miriam Ferzli, Michael Carter and Eric Wiebe.
Journal of College Science Teaching 35.3 (Nov-Dec 2005): p31(3).

Coral Reef Ecosystem Assessment and Monitoring Database

" The NOAA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment will now provide public access to new digital photographs from six years of coral reef field studies. The online Coral Reef Ecosystem Database, developed and managed by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, provides access to images of coral reef species and habitats, which were taken during studies in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."

Complete Press Release

NOAA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Database: http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/biogeo_public/reef_photos.aspx