Re: Bioluminescence
- From: Bob <bbx107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:21:53 -0700
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:00:33 +0200, Michael Kerscher
<MKerscher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Bob schrieb:
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:07:24 +0200, Michael Kerscher
>> <MKerscher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello everyone!
>>>
>>>A friend of mine is writing a (pretty important) work for school about
>>>the bioluminescence of mushrooms at the example of panellus stipticus.
>>>
>>>Now she tried to find out the chemical formula for the
>>>luciferine-luciferqase-reaction of this mushroom. I searched in every
>>>source known to me, but I haven't been able to find anything.
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you have searched in every source you know, but don?t give us any
>> idea of what they are, you make it difficult for us to respond. Some
>> people say that and have not even tried either google or their
>> reference librarian. So... first, try google, and your reference
>> librarian. In particular, there are specialized databases available
>> that univ libraries usually subscribe to for searching such things.
>> I?d use BIOSIS in this case, but you need to use whatever your univ
>> has.
>>
>
>I'm no Biology student and have never heard of Biosis, but I'm gonna try
>and find out what it is and how it can help me... :-)
It is a database -- loosely of everything published in biology, since
whenever they started (which is a few decades ago). It predates the
internet, and the web version of it requires subscription. Your
library may have one and/or may have the print version, called
Biological Abstracts.
>Although many people seem to think that posting into a newsgroup is the
>first thing I do,
It's not so much that we think that, as that we do not know at all.
And some people do ask first, without having done any looking.
>I really HAVE searched through google. There seems to
>be one good article on Wiley Interscience, but I just cant figure out
>how to get it yet (cause I don't have any registration).
Are you using a computer on your university network (so that you have
access to what they subscribe to)?? If not, try that. OR... write down
the reference, and check for a paper copy in your library. (It is a
whole can of worms as to what is available on the internet, and at
what price. The short answer is that most recent stuff is available,
though access often depends on your univ subscribing, and that old
stuff varies widely, as it first requires that the journal go back and
digitize old volumes. Again, you should be able to get info thru your
library. The specifics of my univ won't do you any good, but just as
an example... the Univ Calif online catalog lists journals, and tells
what is available online. Further, the branch library for biology at
Berkeley has a simple list of all e-journals they subscribe to.
bob
>All othe rthings I've found are either not appropriate or just too
>"simple" to use ("Bioluminescence is when organisms glow in the dark").
>I'm gonna keep looking, but till now I haven't found what I'm looking for.
>
>> You can also try scirus or google scholar online, but they are not as
>> through as BIOSIS. You can try Medline; it's coverage is often
>> surprisingly broad. It's there and free, so use it.
>
>Gonna try this, too...
>
>> Don't be too surprised if it is not known. In that case, if helpful,
>> you can give examples from a couple of other organisms to illustrate
>> the idea.
>>
>> bob
>>
.
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