What's New at Parks Library
October 2005

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

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

Homepage: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~adinkelm/homepage.html

1. Recent Additions to the Collection

2. New Database!! - Birds of North America Online

3. The Chronicle of Higher Education - Online Access!

4. Who's Publishing at Iowa State University?

5. Are You Teaching a Class Next Semester?

1. Recent Additions to the Collection

Charles Darwin - John Muir

How to read Darwin / Mark Ridley. London : Granta, 2005.
QH31 D2 R53x 2005
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John Muir : magnificent tramp / Rod Miller. New York : Forge Book/Tom Doherty Associates, 2005.
QH31 M9 M55 2005

Nature Conservation - Biogeography - Rain Forests - Rivers

Monitoring stream and watershed restoration / edited by Philip Roni ; Ed Quimby, technical editor.
Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 2005
QH75 M656 2005
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The American wilderness : reflections on nature protection in the United States / Thomas R. Vale.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.
QH76 V25 2005
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Biogeography / Mark V. Lomolino, Brett R. Riddle, James H. Brown. Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2006.
QH84 B76 2006
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Tropical rainforests : past, present & future / edited by Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, and Craig Moritz.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
QH86 T764 2005

White Sea : its marine environment and ecosystem dynamics influenced by global change / Nikolai Filatov ... [et al.].
Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis, c2005.
QH95.57 W48 W45 2005

Rivers of North America / edited by Arthur C. Benke & Colbert E. Cushing.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005.
QH102 R58 2005
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Restoration and management of lakes and reservoirs / edited by G. Dennis Cooke ... [et al.].
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2005.
QH541.15 R45 R49 2005

Microscopy

Virtual microscopy and virtual slides in teaching, diagnosis, and research / edited by Jiang Gu, Robert W. Ogilvie.
Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
QH211 .V57 2005

Biomathematics - Bioinformatics

Mathematics and 21st century biology / Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE's Computational Biology, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2005.
QH323.5 M376 2005
Online Book

Bioinformatics basics : applications in biological science and medicine / edited by Lukas K. Buehler, Hooman H. Rashidi.
Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
QH324.2 .R37 2005

Introduction to bioinformatics / Arthur M. Lesk.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QH507 L47 2005 Note: This is the second edition.
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Information and its role in nature / J.G. Roederer.
Berlin : Springer, 2005.
QH507 R64x 2005

Origin and Beginnings of Life

Genesis : the scientific quest for life's origin / Robert M. Hazen. Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, c2005.
QH325 H39 2005
Online book

Bioethics

Bioethics in a small world / F. Thiele, R.E. Ashcroft (eds). Berlin : Springer, c2005.
QH332 B525x 2005

Expanding horizons in bioethics / edited by Arthur W. Galston and Christiana Z. Peppard.
Dordrecht : Springer, c2005
QH332 E97x 2005

Population Biology - Biological Invasions

Individual-based modeling and ecology / Volker Grimm, Steven F. Railsback.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005
QH352 .G75 2005
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Aliens in the backyard : plant and animal imports into America / John Leland.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2005.
QH353 .L49 2005

Exactly solvable models of biological invasion / Sergei V. Petrovskii and Bai-Lian Li.
Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006.
QH353 .P48 2006

Genetics - Genetic Engineering - Cloning

Computational genome analysis : an introduction / Richard C. Deonier, Simon Tavaré, Michael S. Waterman.
New York : Springer, 2005.
QH438.4.M33 D46 2005
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GMO free : exposing the hazards of biotechnology to ensure the integrity of our food supply / Independent Science Panel ; Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching ; with contributions from Joe Cummins ... [et al.].
by Independent Science Panel on GM.
Ridgefield, Conn. : Vital Health Pub., c2004.
QH442 I558x 2004

Epigenetic risks of cloning / edited by Akio Inui.
Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2006.
QH442.2 .E65 2006

Gene regulation : a eukaryotic perspective / David S. Latchman.
by Latchman, David S.
New York : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
QH450.2 .L37 2006

Selective sweep / [edited by] Dmitry Nurminsky.
Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2005.
QH460 S454 2005
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Molecular Biology

Present at the flood : how structural molecular biology came about / Richard E. Dickerson.
Sunderland, Mass : Sinauer Associates, c2005
QH506 D53 2005
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Ecology - Biodiversity

Ecological paradigms lost : routes of theory change / [edited by] Kim Cuddington, Beatrix E. Beisner.
Oxford : Elsevier, Academic Press, c2005
QH540.8 E28x 2005
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The evolution of American ecology, 1890-2000 / Sharon E. Kingsland.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
QH540.83.U6 K56 2005
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Biodiversity : Przewalski's horse, Edna's trillium, the giant squid, and over 1.5 million other species / L.L. Gaddy.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
QH541.15 B56 G33x 2005

Wormwood forest : a natural history of Chernobyl / Mary Mycio.
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2005.
QH543.5 M93 2005

Botany - Plant Science

Plant conservation : a natural history approach / edited by Gary A. Krupnick and W. John Kress ; with a foreword by Daniel H. Janzen.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
QK86 .P58 2005
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Forest plants of the Southeast and their wildlife uses / James H. Miller, Karl V. Miller ; featuring photography by Ted Bodner.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2005.
QK125 M55 2005

Wetlands and quiet waters of the Midwest / photographs and introduction by Torkel Korling ; essay and species notes by Robert O. Petty and Anne M. Petty ; with a foreword by Marion T. Jackson.
Bloomington, Ind. : Quarry Books, c2005.
QK128 K67 2005

Hardy rhododendron species : a guide to identification / James Cullen ; with photographs by Debbie White and Frieda Christie.
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2005.
QK495.E68 C85 2005

Methods in yeast genetics : a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course manual / David C. Amberg, Daniel J. Burke, Jeffrey N. Strathern.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2005.
QK617.5 A46x 2005

Plant analysis procedures / edited by Erwin E.J.M. Temminghoff and Victor J.G. Houba.
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004.
QK865 P58 2004
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Plant nutritional genomics / edited by Martin R. Broadley and Philip J. White.
Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
QK867 P548x 2005
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Antioxidants and reactive oxygen species in plants / edited by Nicholas Smirnoff.
Oxford, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
QK898 A57 A57 2005

Bio-based polymers and composites / Richard P. Wool, Xiuzhi Susan Sun.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005.
QK898.P76 W66 2005

DNA fingerprinting in plants : principles, methods, and applications / by Kurt Weising ... [et al.].
Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
QK981.45 D54 2005

Zoology

A field guide to North Atlantic wildlife : marine mammals, seabirds, fish, and other sea life / Noble S. Proctor, Patrick J. Lynch ; illustrated by Patrick J. Lynch. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2005.
QL128 P76 2005

Beyond the beach blanket : a field guide to Southern California coastal wildlife / Marina Curtis Tidwell.
Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press, 2005.
QL164 T53 2005

Act III in Patagonia : people and wildlife / William Conway.
Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2005.
QL239 .C66 2005

Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country / Chris Tzaros ; photographs by Tadao Shimba, Chris Tzaros and Peter Robertson.
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, c2005.
QL339 V6 T99x 2005

A field guide to butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem / Diane M. Debinski and James A. Pritchard ; butterfly illustrations by Lynn Thorensen.
QL551 W8 D43 2002

Biology of Gila monsters and beaded lizards / Daniel D. Beck ; with contributions from Brent E. Martin and Charles H. Lowe ; foreword by Harry Greene ; photographs by Thomas Wiewandt. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
QL666 L247 B43 2005

Arizona breeding bird atlas / edited by Troy E. Corman and Cathryn Wise-Gervais.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005
QL684.A6 A75 2005

The gyrfalcon / Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.
QL696 F34 P67x 2005

In the company of crows and ravens / John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell ; illustrated by Tony Angell ; foreword by Paul Erhlich.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
QL696.P2367 M358 2005

Antipredator defenses in birds and mammals / Tim Caro ; with drawings by Sheila Girling.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
QL698.3 .C36 2005

The chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest : ecology, behaviour, and conservation / Vernon Reynolds ; [with an introduction by Jane Goodall].
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QL737.P96 R46 2005

To save the wild bison : life on the edge in Yellowstone / Mary Ann Franke.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2005.
QL737.U53 F73 2005

Hormones and animal social behavior / Elizabeth Adkins-Regan.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
QL775 .A4 2005

The evolution of animal communication : reliability and deception in signaling systems / William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
QL776 .S35 2005
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Physiology - Nutrition

Integrative physiology in the proteomics and post-genomics age / edited by Wolfgang Walz.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2005.
QP43 I585 2005

Nutrigenomics / edited by Gerald Rimbach, Jürgen Fuchs, Lester Packer.
Boca Raton : Taylor&Francis, 2005.
QP144 G45 N88 2005

Cellular Signal Transduction - Charge Transfer in Biology

Biophysical aspects of transmembrane signaling / S. Damjanovich (ed.).
Berlin : Springer-Verlag, c2005.
QP517 C45 B56x 2005

Charge transfer in DNA : from mechanism to application / edited by Hans-Achim Wagenknecht.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
QP517 C49 C483x 2005

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

More practical problem solving in HPLC / Stavros Kromidas ; with contributions by Friedrich Mandel, Jürgen Maier-Rosenkranz and Hans-Joachim Kuss ; translated by Renate FitzRoy.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
QP519 H53 K766 2005

Biochemistry - Mass Spectrometry - NMR - Flow Cytometry

Principles and techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology / edited by Keith Wilson and John Walker.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
QP519.7 P75 2005

The immunoassay handbook / edited by David Wild.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005
QP519.9 I42 I4355 2005

Handbook of isoelectric focusing and proteomics / edited by David Garfin, Satinder Ahuja.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, 2005.
QP519.9 I8 H36x 2005

Mass spectrometry in biophysics : conformation and dynamics of biomolecules / Igor A. Kaltashov, Stephen J. Eyles.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2005.
QP519.9 M3 K35 2005

Basic one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy / Horst Friebolin ; translated by Jack K. Becconsall.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
QP519.9 N83 F7513 2005

The organic chemistry of biological pathways / John E. McMurry, Tadhg P. Begley.
Englewood, Colo. : Roberts and Co. Publishers, c2005.
QP550 M38 2005

Acceleration and improvement of protein identification by mass spectrometry / edited by Willy Vincent Bienvenut.
Dordrecht : Springer, 2005.
QP551 A26 2005

The G protein-coupled receptors handbook / edited by Lakshmi A. Devi ; foreword by Andreas Engel, Krzysztof Palczewski.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2005.
QP552.G16 .G174 2005

Flow cytometry for biotechnology / edited by Larry A. Sklar.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
TP248.25 F57 F57 2005

Nucleic Acids

RNA methodologies : a laboratory guide for isolation and characterization / Robert E. Farrell, Jr.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005.
QP623 F37 2005

DNA topology / Andrew D Bates, Anthony Maxwell.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
QP624.5 S78 B38 2005

Microbiology - Immunology - Virology

Revenge of the microbes : how bacterial resistance is undermining the antibiotic miracle / Abigail A. Salyers and Dixie D. Whitt.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2005.
QR177 S26 2005

Immunological bioinformatics / Ole Lund .. [et al.].
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
QR182.2 I46 I465 2005

Retroviruses and primate genome evolution / [edited by] Eugene D. Sverdlov.
Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience ; Austin, Tex. : Eurekah.com, c2005.
QR414.5 R485 2005
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2. New Database!! - Birds of North America Online

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Image courtesy of the NBII Digital Image Library, http://images.nbii.gov/birds.php

The library has recently acquired a subscription to Birds of North America Online. The Birds of North America Online (BNA Online) provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. This is an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. BNA Online is updated frequently, and it includes image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of bird songs and calls. You can find this listed in the catalog or the Indexes and Abstracts list. The Library also owns the print version (QL681 B57x 1992). The print version of BNA was completed in 2002, a joint 10 year project of the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.

3. The Chronicle of Higher Education - Online Access!

The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available electronically to the ISU Community. To access the Chronicle, from any campus computer, go to: http://chronicle.com. Off-campus access is coming soon.

In the October 14, 2005, issues, there were two interesting articles about impact factors and scientific journals.

4. 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 September 22, 2005 and October 26, 2005.

1: Holmes KL, Culver GM.
Analysis of Conformational Changes in 16S rRNA During the Course of 30S Subunit Assembly.
J Mol Biol. 2005 Oct 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16246364 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

2: Vollbrecht E, Sigmon B.
Amazing grass: developmental genetics of maize domestication.
Biochem Soc Trans. 2005 Dec;33(Pt 6):1502-6.
PMID: 16246155 [PubMed - in process]

3: 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 Oct 21; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16244157 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

4: Serb JM, Oakley TH.
Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology.
Bioessays. 2005 Nov;27(11):1158-66.
PMID: 16237676 [PubMed - in process]

5: 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 [PubMed - in process]

6: Dong Q, Lawrence CJ, Schlueter SD, Wilkerson MD, Kurtz S, Lushbough C, Brendel V.
Comparative Plant Genomics Resources at PlantGDB.
Plant Physiol. 2005 Oct;139(2):610-8.
PMID: 16219921 [PubMed - in process]

7: Grozdanic SD, Ast AM, Lazic T, Kwon YH, Kardon RH, Sonea IM, Sakaguchi DS.
Morphological integration and functional assessment of transplanted neural progenitor cells in healthy and acute ischemic rat eyes.
Exp Eye Res. 2005 Oct 4; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16213484 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

8: Choi DW, Antholine WE, Do YS, Semrau JD, Kisting CJ, Kunz RC, Campbell D, Rao V, Hartsel SC, DiSpirito AA.
Effect of methanobactin on the activity and electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of the membrane-associated methane monooxygenase in Methylococcus capsulatus Bath.
Microbiology. 2005 Oct;151(Pt 10):3417-26.
PMID: 16207923 [PubMed - in process]

9: Horner HT, Cervantes-Martinez T, Healy R, Reddy MB, Deardorff BL, Bailey TB, Al-Wahsh I, Massey LK, Palmer RG.
Oxalate and phytate concentrations in seeds of soybean cultivars [Glycine max (L.) Merr.].
J Agric Food Chem. 2005 Oct 5;53(20):7870-7.
PMID: 16190644 [PubMed - in process]

10: Havecker ER, Gao X, Voytas DF.
The Sireviruses, a Plant-Specific Lineage of the Ty1/copia Retrotransposons, Interact with a Family of Proteins Related to Dynein Light Chain 8.
Plant Physiol. 2005 Oct;139(2):857-68. Epub 2005 Sep 23.
PMID: 16183843 [PubMed - in process]

11: Rapp RA, Wendel JF.
Epigenetics and plant evolution.
New Phytol. 2005 Oct;168(1):81-91.
PMID: 16159323 [PubMed - in process]

12: Krenz JG, Naylor GJ, Shaffer HB, Janzen FJ.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of turtles.
Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2005 Oct;37(1):178-91.
PMID: 15964217 [PubMed - in process]

The following citations were retrieved from Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide and Biosis Previews. The following papers were published in 2005 by faculty in EEOB.

13: Martin, Leanne M.; Moloney, Kirk A.; Wilsey, Brian J.
An assessment of grassland restoration success using species diversity components.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 42(2): pp. 327-336; Apr 2005

14: Wiegand, Thorsten; Revilla, Eloy; Moloney, Kirk A.
Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Dynamics.
Conservation Biology, 19(1): pp. 108-121; Feb 2005

15: Orrock, John L.; Danielson, Brent J.
Patch Shape, Connectivity, and Foraging by Oldfield Mice (Peromyscus Polionotus).
Journal of Mammalogy, 86(3): pp. 569-575; Jun 2005

16: Reeder, Kathleen F.; Debinski, Diane M.; Danielson, Brent J.
Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA
Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment. 2005; 109(1-2): 40-47

17: Bronikowski, Anne M.; Promislow, Daniel E. L.
Testing evolutionary theories of aging in wild populations
Trends-in-Ecology-and-Evolution. 2005; 20(6): 271-273

18: Wilsey, Brian J.; Chalcraft, David R.; Bowles, Christy M.; Willig, Michael R.
Relationships among indices suggest that richness is an incomplete surrogate
for grassland biodiversity
Ecology-(Washington-D-C). 2005; 86(5): 1178-1184

19: Spencer, Ricky John; Thompson, Michael B.
Experimental analysis of the impact of foxes on freshwater turtle populations
Conservation-Biology. 2005; 19(3): 845-854

5. Are You Teaching a Class Next Semester?

If so, consider including a library/research-oriented assignment in your syllabus. I recently gave a presentation to Dr. Rob Wallace's Biological Evolution class. Dr. Wallace's students are writing research papers this semester. My presentation included a review of databases relevant to their topics, search techniques, and other resources relevant to evolution and ecology. I concluded class by giving a two question "quiz" with the following questions: 1. List 2 things you learned in class today, and 2. List 1 or 2 things that you still don't understand about research or using the library. The following are actual student comments about this class session:

If you are overwhelmed at the thought of grading research papers, consider including some shorter assignments that require students to utilize library resources. There are a number of worthy exercises that students can complete in order to learn more about the vast array of information resources. I would be more than happy to meet with you to discuss your ideas.