March_2007_Newsletter

What's New at Parks Library?
March 2007

Compiled by Andrea L. Dinkelman, Subject Librarian for BBMB, EEOB, and GDCB

152 Parks Library, 294-6943, adinkelm@iastate.edu

6. WEBSITES OF INTEREST - GM Crops: The First 10 Years – Global Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts; NIH Extramural Nexus - January 2007; Are Journal Rankings Distorting Science?; Cool Stuff Being Made; Growing the Nation's Biotech Sector: A Regional Perspective

Note: As of Friday, March 16, the "lecture + lab" option for all Mini-courses is full. There is still space available to attend the lecture only. I have started a waiting list for the computer lab sessions for all 4 Mini-courses. If you registered and you cannot attend, please let me know as soon as possible. Someone will gladly take your spot!

Parks Library has recently acquired access to a number of electronic books. All of these electronic books are part of Wiley Interscience. Each book has a record in the Library catalog. Do a "title" search in the catalog; you'll find a direct link to each book.

Chemistry - Biochemistry - Nanotechnology - Conduct of Research - Wind Energy

Lastly, The Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology, edited by Srinivas Aluru (ISU faculty member) and published in 2006 is now available online. The book is part of ENGnetBase. There is a record for the electronic version of the book in the catalog. ENGnetBase is also listed in the Indexes & Abstracts list on the library website. Other ISU contributors include: Benjamin N. Jackson, David Fernandez-Baca, Balaji Venkatachalam, Pang Ko, Xiaoqiu Huang, Anantharaman Kalyanaraman, Scott J. Emrich, Oliver Eulenstein, and Hui-Hsien Chou.

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Click here to see who's publishing at Iowa State University. These citations were added to PubMed between January 16, 2007 and March 18, 2007.

The following citations were added to Biosis Previews between January 19, 2007 and March 15, 2007.

Title: Influence of the protein matrix on intramolecular histidine ligation in ferric and ferrous hexacoordinate hemoglobins.
Author(s): Halder, Puspita; Trent, James T., III; Hargrove, Mark S.
Source: Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics 66 (1) : 172-182 JAN 2007

Title: Reduction in hypericin-induced phototoxicity by Hypericum perforatum extracts and pure compounds.
Author(s): Schmitt, Laura A.; Liu, Yi; Murphy, Patricia A.; Petrich, Jacob W.; Dixon, Philip M.; Birt, Diane F.
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology 85 (2) : 118-130 NOV 1 2006

Title: Genomic resources of agronomic crops (Book chapter)
Author(s):Cianzio, Silvia R.; Shoemaker, Randy C.; Charlson, Dirk V.Editor(s): Barton, LL; Abadia, J
Source: Iron Nutrition in Plants and Rhizospheric Microorganisms : 449-466 2006

Title: Oil bodies in leaf mesophyll cells of angiosperms: Overview and a selected survey.
Author(s): Lersten, Nels R.; Czlapinski, Albert R.; Curtis, John D.; Freckmann, Robert; Horner, Harry T.Source:
American Journal of Botany 93 (12) : 1731-1739 DEC 2006

Title:Tobacco nectaries express a novel NADPH oxidase implicated in the defense of floral reproductive tissues against microorganisms
Author(s):Carter, Clay; Healy, Rosanne; O'Tool, Nicole M.; Naqvi, S. M. Saqlan; Ren, Gang; Park, Sanggyu; Beattie, Gwyn A.; Horner, Harry T.; Thornburg, Robert W.
Source: Plant Physiology (Rockville) 143 (1) : 389-399 JAN 2007

Title: Annual cycle of activity, reproduction, and body mass in Mexican ground squirrels (Spermophilus mexicanus)
Author(s):Schwanz, Lisa E.
Source: Journal of Mammalogy 87 (6) : 1086-1095 DEC 2006

Title: Leaf-targeted phytochelatin synthase in Arabidopsis thaliana
Author(s): Peterson, A. G.; Oliver, D. J.
Source: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (Paris) 44 (11-12) : 885-892 NOV-DEC 2006

Title: Evenness-invasibility relationships differ between two extinction scenarios in tallgrass prairie
Author(s): Losure, David A.; Wilsey, Brian J.; Moloney, Kirk A.
Source: Oikos 116 (1) : 87-98 JAN 2007

Title: Experimental analysis of an early life-history stage: direct or indirect selection on body size of hatchling turtles?
Author(s): Janzen, Fredric J.; Tucker, John K.; Paukstis, Gary L.
Source: Functional Ecology 21 (1) : 162-170 FEB 2007

Title: Telomere length shortens with body length in Alligator mississippiensis
Author(s): Scott, Nicole M.; Haussmann, Mark F.; Elsey, Ruth M.; Trosclair, Phillip L., III; Vleck, Carol M.
Source: Southeastern Naturalist 5 (4) : 685-692 2006

Title: Year-and-a-half old, dried Echinacea roots retain cytokine-modulating capabilities in an in vitro human older adult model of influenza vaccination
Author(s): Senchina, David S.; Wu, Lankun; Flinn, Gina N.; Konopka, Del N.; McCoy, Joe-Ann; Widrelechner, Mark P.; Wurtele, Eve Syrkin; Kohut, Marian L.
Source: Planta Medica 72 (13) : 1207-1215 OCT 2006

Title: Plasticity of embryonic growth rate and metabolism in the face of periodic cooling in House Wrens (Meeting Abstract)
Author(s): Olson, C. R.; Vleck, C. M.; Vleck, D.
Source: Journal of Ornithology 147 (5, Suppl. 1) : 222-223 AUG 2006

Title: Patterns and mechanisms of immunosenescence in the tree swallow (Meeting Abstract)
Author(s): Palacios, M. G.; Cunnick, J. E.; Winkler, D. W.; Vleck, C. M.
Source: Journal of Ornithology 147 (5, Suppl. 1) : 119 AUG 2006

Title: Senescence birds I: Mechanisms (Meeting Abstract)
Author(s): Vleck, C.; Haussmann, M.; Vleck, D.
Source: Journal of Ornithology 147 (5, Suppl. 1) : 67 AUG 2006

Title: An alternate hypothesis to explain the high frequency of "revertants" in hothead mutants in Arabidopsis
Author(s): Krishnaswamy, L.; Peterson, T.
Source: Plant Biology (Stuttgart) 9 (1) : 30-31 JAN 2007

Title: Characterization of the interactions of fluorescent probes with proteins: Coumarin 153 and 1,8-ANS in complex with holo- and apomyoglobin
Author(s): Mukherjee, Prasun; Haider, Mintu; Hargrove, Mark S.; Petrich, Jacob W.
Source: Photochemistry and Photobiology 82 (6) : 1586-1590 NOV-DEC 2006

Title: Coalescent theory for a completely random mating monoecious population
Author(s): Pollak, Edward
Source: Mathematical Biosciences 205 (2) : 315-324 FEB 2007

Title:Amyloid-beta peptide affects viability but not differentiation of embryonic and adult rat hippocampal progenitor cells
Author(s): Eucher, James N.; Uemura, Etsuro; Sakaguchi, Donald S.; Greenlee, M. Heather West
Source: Experimental Neurology 203 (2) : 486-492 FEB 2007

From the NLM/NCBI List blast-announce listserv on March 5, 2007:

NCBI is holding a beta test for a new BLAST interface design. We invite you to try these pages and send us your comments and suggestions.

One major improvement is a new "Recent Results" feature that provides links to all of your recent BLAST search results. Another is "Saved
Strategies", which allows you to save BLAST forms with their parameters and use them later. Saved Strategies requires a free MyNCBI account, and is compatible with existing accounts. Signing in to MyNCBI also makes your Recent Results available from any browser.

Other improvements include:
- Easier navigation
- Simplified BLAST program selection
- Easy access to genome searches
- Improved Organism selection with species name auto-complete
- Automatic parameter adjustment to optimize for short queries
- A user-specifiable title for each BLAST job

Please send all comments suggestions or bug reports to
Scott McGinnis, mcginnis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

"Biotech crops have produced a decade of improvements in yield and net farm income for grain, oilseed and cotton farmers. Now, according to a peer-reviewed study on the crops’ global economic and environmental impact, the benefits are “clear” – especially reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.

In 2005, herbicide-tolerant biotech crops planted using conservation tillage practices helped to retain carbon in the soil. Insect-resistant crops dramatically reduced the need for spraying, while also significantly reducing farm fuel usage. All told, biotech crops, planted during their 10th year of use on 87 million hectares (215 million acres) by 8.5 million farmers, reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 9 billion kg. (8.9 million tons). That’s the equivalent to removing nearly 4 million family cars from the road for an entire year, according to study author Graham Brookes, director of PG Economics Limited of Dorchester, United Kingdom."

"The NIH has developed a Web-based tool that allows you to determine the dollars awarded to any one organization or department. The tool will allow you to download aggregate data, on a per fiscal year basis, so that you can conduct your own analysis."

Curious about how Hershey's Kisses, Neon Signs, Sparklers, and Bricks are made? Check out this extensive collection of videos at the National Association of Manufacturers website: http://blog.nam.org/csbmindex.php

"This 2006 report presents updated data, examines growth trends, and identifies metropolitan areas with the largest and most concentrated employment in each of the bioscience subsectors identified in the 2004 report. These include agricultural feedstock and chemicals; drugs and pharmaceuticals; medical devices and equipment; and research, testing and medical laboratories. This report also identifies current key trends in state and regional initiatives to support the biosciences."

What's New at Parks Library? March 2007

SCIENCE - GENERAL

What's New at Parks Library?
March 2007