Once you are ready to use FirstSearch databases the first problem is which to choose. Under "Life Sciences" you'll find these:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * Database Selection * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TOPIC AREA: Life Sciences __NO.__DATABASE__________DESCRIPTION____________________________________| | 1 AGRICOLA Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture. | 2 BasicBIOSIS A wide range of bioscience topics. | 3 BioDigest Non-technical digests in biology, ecology & health. | 4 BiolAgrIndex Leading publications in agriculture and biology. |_____________________________________________________________________________ (General Science Index is under "General Science" and MEDLINE is available through option #1 on the FirstSearch menu) BioDigest is often a good place to begin; its short articles are aimed at a lay readership but can also be a valuable source of basic information for the more sophisticated searcher as well. Here are some results from searches for 'chaos' and 'mitochondrial dna': DATABASE: BioDigest LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:chaos FOUND 40 Records ____NO.__TITLE__________________________________________AUTHOR___________ YEAR | | 1 The Essence of Chaos LORENZ, EDWARD 1994 | 2 Hot Air BEARDSLEY, TIM 1994 | 3 El Nino Chaos: Overlapping of Resonances B... CANE, MARK 1994 | 4 El Nino on the Devil's Staircase: Annual S... GHIL, MICHAEL 1994 | 5 Self-Organization and the Dreaming Brain KAHN, DAVID 1994 | 6 Nurturing Nature HOLLOWAY, MARGU 1994 | 7 The Long View of Weather MONASTERSKY, RI 1993 | 8 Life, the Universe and Everything LEMONICK, MICHA 1993 | 9 Battle Royal 1993 | 10 Multiple Personality Disorder: A Contempor... KLUFT, RICHARD 1993 | 11 Population Oscillations of Boreal Rodents:... HANSKI, ILKKA 1993 | 12 Europe in the Grip of Recycling Chaos ROSE, JULIAN 1993 | 13 Chaos of the Mind PENDICK, DANIEL 1993 | 14 Cape Crusaders Kill African "Killer" Bees DAY, STEPHEN 1993 | 15 Chops and the Single Ion Channel EZZELL, C. 1992 | 16 Troubling Complexities PETERSON, I. 1992 | 17 Crazy Rhythms PATERSON, IVARS 1992 | 18 Depression Rates Rise Over Generations BOWER, B. 1992 | 19 Adapting to Complexity RUTHEN, RUSSELL 1993 | 20 Blowing Hot and Cold With Climate Models NIELSEN, ROLF H 1992 | 21 Earthquake-Induced Resonance in Sedimentar... RIAL, JOSE A. 1992 | 22 Does Chaos Rule the Cosmos? STEWART, IAN 1992 | 23 Global Pollution's Silver Lining MICHAELS, PATRI 1991 | 24 Drought Hits Brazil as Climate Chaos Spreads PEARCE, FRED 1992 | 25 When Order Gives Way to Chaos in the Cell YOUNG, STEPHEN 1992 | 26 Splitting Images: Sex and Science HASTE, HELEN 1992 | 27 Promise and Problems in the Palcazu KIERNAN, MICHAE 1992 | 28 Quantum Chaos GUTZWILLER, MAR 1992 | 29 Superfund--Super Problems? 1991 | 30 Defeating Chaos MURRAY, MARY 1991 | 31 Mutant Monikers: A Tale of Freaky Flies an... WEISS, RICK 1991 | 32 Of Flocks and Chaos MILLER, JULIE A 1990 DATABASE: BioDigest LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:mitochondrial dna FOUND 37 Records ____NO.__TITLE__________________________________________AUTHOR___________ YEAR | | 1 Will Primate Genetics Split One Gorilla In... MORELL, VIRGINI 1994 | 2 DNA Test Traps Whale Traders SZABO, MICHAEL 1994 | 3 Domesticated Cattle Show Their Breeding WUETHRICH, BERN 1994 | 4 A Subtype of Diabetes Mellitus Associated ... KADOWAKI, TAKAS 1994 | 5 France Must Look North for Bear Necessities PATEL, TARA 1994 | 6 New Gene Study Enters Human Origins Debate BOWER, B. 1993 | 7 Closing the Gap SMALL, MEREDITH 1993 | 8 Baleen Whale's Genes Capture Echoes of Past DE SMET, KOEN 1993 | 9 Is the Invading Medfly Eligible for Califo... ABATE, TOM 1993 | 10 Shaking the Tree: Will Statistical Analysi... ROSS, PHILIP E. 1992 | 11 Why Do We Age? RUSTING, RICKI 1992 | 12 Who Peopled the Planet? GUTIN, JOANN C. 1992 | 13 Mitochondrial Genetics: A Paradigm for Agi... WALLACE, DOUGLA 1992 | 14 Will Neanderthal Genes Be the Test of Eve? ROSS, PHILIP E. 1992 | 15 An About-Face for Modern Human Origins GIBBONS, ANN 1992 | 16 Eve and Her Tree GOULD, STEPHEN 1992 | 17 The Geography of Phylogeny MILLER, JULIE A 1992 | 18 "African Eve" Backers Beat a Retreat BARINAGA, MARCI 1992 | 19 Elephant and Rhinoceros Conservation in Kenya BRAUDE, STAN 1992 | 20 The Human Genome STRACHAN, T. 1992 | 21 Mitochondria Tell the Tale of Migrations t... LEWIN, ROGER 1992 | 22 The Recent African Genesis of Humans WILSON, ALLAN C 1992 | 23 The Multiregional Evolution of Humans THORNE, ALAN G. 1992 | 24 Chemical Probes Confirm U.S. Origin of Fis... 1991 | 25 Molecular Techniques Aid Studies of Tropic... SCHULZ, WILLIAM 1991 | 26 Mitochondrial DNA: A New Frontier in Acqui... RANDALL, TERI 1991 | 27 Hypoxemia is Associated With Mitochondrial... CORRAL-DEBRINSK 1991 | 28 African Lineage, Hypertension Linked GOLDSMITH, MARS 1991 | 29 Antiviral Toxicity Linked to Mitochondrial... POLLNER, FRAN 1991 | 30 Common Origin Cited for American Indians BOWER, B. 1990 | 31 Green Sea Turtles Come 'Home' to Nest SWEENEY, LOUISE 1990 | 32 Under the Sea MILLER, JULIE A 1990 | 33 A Novel Way of Editing Genetic Messages DECKER, C. 1990 | 34 DNA Polishes Dusky Genetics 1990 | 35 Turtle Mystery Reevaluated 1989 | 36 Mitochondria--Eclectic Organelles LEWIS, RICKI 1989 | 37 Detection of Retrovirus in Patients with M... BOYD, M.T. 1989 |_____________________________________________________________________________Check here for material on lichens from BioDigest
General Science Index covers a good range of general-readership science journals and a number of more specialized ones as well. The search for 'chaos' is interesting, but produces too many to look through easily: DATABASE: GenSciIndex LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:chaos FOUND 543 Records ____NO.__SOURCE_____________TITLE_______________________________________YEAR | | 1 Sci Am Brain storm: controlling chaos could he 1994 | 2 New Sci Chaos in Wonderland (book review). 1994 | 3 New Sci Two's integrable, three's chaos. 1994 | 4 Proc Natl Acad S Computation with chaos: a paradigm for 1994 | 5 Math Intell "Chaos unimportant" claims topologist. 1994 | 6 Nature Order, chaos, order (book review). 1994 | 7 Am J Phys Chaos and nonlinear dynamics (book revi 1994 | 8 Proc Natl Acad S Cycles, chaos, and evolution in virus c 1994 DATABASE: GenSciIndex LIMITED TO: A somewhat more restricted search turns up some interesting looking results: SEARCH: su:chaos biology FOUND 20 Records ____NO.__SOURCE_____________TITLE_______________________________________YEAR | | 1 Proc Natl Acad S Cycles, chaos, and evolution in virus c 1994 | 2 Nature Species coexistence and self-organizing 1994 | 3 Discover Our genes aren't us. 1994 | 4 Nature Period-doubling reversals and chaos in 1993 | 5 Hum Biol Chaos, population biology, and epidemio 1993 | 6 Nature Population oscillations of boreal roden 1993 | 7 Nature Chaos reduces species extinction by amp 1993 | 8 Am Nat Loose coupling of predator-prey cycles: 1993 | 9 Science Mathematical biology: chaos breaks out 1992 | 10 BioScience Biology on the brink of mathematical ch 1991 | 11 Nature Spatial structure and chaos in insect p 1991 | 12 Nature Population ecology: chaos in time and s 1991 | 13 Ecology Problems in detecting chaotic behavior 1990 | 14 Sci News The source of floral chaos. 1990 | 15 New Sci The chaotic rhythms of life. 1989 | 16 Nature Detecting density dependence in imagina 1989 'mitochondrial dna' produces quite a few: DATABASE: GenSciIndex LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:mitochondrial dna FOUND 193 Records ____NO.__SOURCE_____________TITLE_______________________________________YEAR | | 1 Proc Natl Acad S Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in 1994 | 2 Hum Biol Distribution of the 9-bp mitochondrial 1994 | 3 Genetics Sex-limited mitochondrial DNA transmiss 1994 | 4 Genetics Neutral and non-neutral evolution of Dr 1994 | 5 Proc Natl Acad S Phylogeny and evolution of the auks (su 1994 | 6 Evolution Mitochondrial DNA variation within and 1994 | 7 Genetics Complete DNA sequence of the mitochondr 1994 | 8 Proc Natl Acad S An unusual type of mitochondrial DNA in 1994 | 9 J Bacteriol NADH dehydrogenase subunit genes in the 1994 | 10 Proc Natl Acad S Rapid morphological radiation and conve 1994 | 11 Genetics Length variation in mitochondrial DNA o 1994 | 12 Proc Natl Acad S A mitochondrial DNA mutation at nucleot 1994 | 13 Proc Natl Acad S Mitochondrial minicircle DNA supports p 1994 | 14 Hum Biol Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in north 1994 | 15 Hum Biol Signature of ancient population growth 1994 | 16 Lancet Diffuse leukodystrophy with a large-sca 1994 | 17 Evolution Rate limits for mispairing and compensa 1994 | 18 Evolution Historical biogeography and contemporar 1994 | 19 Evolution The geography of mitochondrial DNA vari 1994 | 20 Nature Mitochondrial DNA inheritance. 1994 | 21 Genetics Sequences with the potential to form st 1994 | 22 N Engl J Med A subtype of diabetes mellitus associat 1994 | 23 Science Two eves for daisy?. 1994 | 24 Evolution Genetic subdivisions among small canids 1993 |_____________________________________________________________________________
BIOSIS is Biological Abstracts, and BasicBIOSIS is a subset of Biological Abstracts (some subjects left out, coverage for only the last decade). BasicBIOSIS is an essential tool for most biological topics --and DOES provide the DESCRIPTORS (terms from Biological Abstracts controlled vocabulary) that would be essential information for more elaborate searching if you need to have COMPLETE bibliography --Reference Librarians would do this for you using DIALOG and Biological Abstracts. Here are some results from BasicBIOSIS searches: DATABASE: BasicBIOSIS LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:chaos FOUND 110 Records __NO.__AUTHOR___________ARTICLE TITLE_________________________________YEAR | | 1 Howe M L Dynamic modeling, chaos, and cognitive de.. 1994 | 2 Sammon M Symmetry, bifurcations, and chaos in a di.. 1994 | 3 Rohani P Quasiperiodicity and chaos in population .. 1994 | 4 Hassell M P Species coexistence and self-organizing s.. 1994 | 5 Bechtel R B Characteristics of a treatment environmen.. 1994 | 6 Pink D Theoretical analysis of ultraviolet-visib.. 1994 | 7 Griffith T M Fractal analysis of role of smooth muscle.. 1994 | 8 Griffith T M EDRF suppresses chaotic pressure oscillat.. 1994 | 9 Abrams P A The effects of enrichment of three-specie.. 1994 | 10 Prank K Is there low-dimensional chaos in pulsati.. 1994 | 11 Pincus S M Physiological time-series analysis: What .. 1994 | 12 Sainani D R Evidence of low dimensional chaos in a ma.. 1994 | 13 Hastings A Persistence of transients in spatially st.. 1994 | 14 Bascompte J Spatially induced bifurcations in single-.. 1994 | 15 McCann K Biological conditions for chaos in a thre.. 1994 | 16 Elbert T Chaos and physiology: Deterministic chaos.. 1994 | 17 Ginzburg L R Population cycles of forest Lepidoptera: .. 1994 | 18 Tidd C W The case for chaos in childhood epidemics.. 1993 | 19 Hjelmfelt A Pattern recognition, chaos, and multiplic.. 1994 | 20 Doebeli M The evolutionary advantage of controlled .. 1993 | 21 Hastings A Chaos in ecology: Is Mother Nature a stra.. 1993 | 22 Fautin D G Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics,.. 1993 | 23 Wilson H B Detecting chaos in a noisy time series. 1993 | 24 Hamilton W D Haploid dynamic polymorphism in a host wi.. 1993 DATABASE: BasicBIOSIS LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:mitochondrial dna FOUND 1674 Records ____NO.__AUTHOR___________ARTICLE TITLE____________________________YEAR | | 1 Li K-N PCR primers that allow intergeneric diffe.. 1994 | 2 Huang J-C HMG-domain proteins specifically inhibit .. 1994 | 3 Boom J D G Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Introduced.. 1994 | 4 Wells M M Small genetic distances among populations.. 1994 | 5 Roehrdanz R L Limited mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in.. 1994 | 6 Brown J M Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the Prodox.. 1994 | 7 Brower A V Z Practical and theoretical considerations .. 1994 | 8 Shang J Human mitochondrial transcription termina.. 1994 | 9 Asmussen M A Sampling theory for cytonuclear disequili.. 1994 | 10 Woodward S R DNA sequence from cretaceous period bone .. 1994 | 11 Simon C Evolution, weighting, and phylogenetic ut.. 1994 | 12 Nagao Y Mitochondrial carbonic anhydrase (isozyme.. 1994 | 13 Schiff N M Genetic diversity of feral honey bee (Hym.. 1994 | 14 Herrmann J M Mitochondrial heat shock protein 70, a mo.. 1994 | 15 Ortiz J A Transfection of the ketogenic mitochondri.. 1994 | 16 Sloan I S Rapid secretion by a nonclassical pathway.. 1994 | 17 Clark B J The purification, cloning, and expression.. 1994 | 18 Dougherty F E Familial recurrence of atypical symptoms .. 1994 | 19 Amar-Costesec The tumor protein MAGE-1 is located in th.. 1994 | 20 Weller S J Phylogeny of noctuoid moths and the utili.. 1994 | 21 Garcia D K Evidence for a mosaic hybrid zone in the .. 1994 | 22 Sperling F A H Mitochondrial DNA variation within and be.. 1994 | 23 Azevedo J E Complementary DNA sequences of the 24 kDa.. 1994 | 24 Kanazawa A Reversible changes in the composition of .. 1994 |_____________________________________________________________________________
AGRICOLA is the National Agricultural Library's database, and contains more than just information on agriculture, though the epicenter has to do with tame plants and animals. Here are some results: DATABASE: AGRICOLA LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:chaos FOUND 75 Records ____NO.__TITLE__________________________________________AUTHOR___________ YEAR | | 1 Chaos in one-predator, two-prey models: gener Klebanoff, A. 1994 | 2 A nonlinear dynamical (chaos) approach to the Roush, W.B. 1994 | 3 Chaos in biological control systems. Cavalieri, L.F. 1994 | 4 Oscillations and chaos in ant societies. Sole, R.V. 1993 | 5 Chaos Game Representations of similarities an Baranidharan, S 1994 | 6 Chaos : Gleick, James. 1988 | 7 Chaos and order : Cramer, Friedri 1993 | 8 Out of chaos, opportunity. Flander, G. 1994 | 9 Product development and the science of chaos. Kesting, R. 1993 | 10 Nucleotide, dinucleotide and trinucleotide fr Goldman, N. 1993 | 11 Endogenous rhythms and chaos in crassulacean Luttge, U. 1992 | 12 Market instability and nonlinear dynamics. Chavas, J.P. 1993 | 13 The neglected health care needs of street you Sherman, D.J. 1992 | 14 Mathematical characterization of Chaos Game R Dutta, C. 1992 | 15 Hunger 1993 : Bread for the W 1992 | 16 The baseline metabolic state in bulimia nervo Goldbloom, D.S. 1992 | 17 Biological kinetics Segel, Lee A. 1991 | 18 Suppression of chaos by periodic oscillations Li, Y.X. 1992 | 19 Detection of chaos: new approach to atmospher Bianchi, M.M. 1992 | 20 Nonlinear dynamics of daily cash prices. Yang, S.R. 1992 | 21 Equitable pricing reflects the real value of Schionning, M.W 1992 | 22 Cycles and chaos in economic equilibrium Benhabib, Jess, 1992 | 23 Wetlands in chaos. Boyles-Sprenkel 1992 | 24 Chaos and coevolution: evolutionary warfare i Allen, J.C. 1991 DATABASE: AGRICOLA LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:mitochondrial dna FOUND 1796 Records ____NO.__TITLE__________________________________________AUTHOR___________ YEAR | | 1 Extension of the mitochondrial transporter su Runswick, M.J. 1994 | 2 Expression of the plant mitochondrial genome. Binder, S. u In 1994 | 3 The plant mitochondrial transfer RNAs have th Dietrich, A. u 1994 | 4 Rapid characterization of four species of the Guillamon, J.M. 1994 | 5 Mitochondrial DNA variability detected in a s Hartmann, C. u 1994 | 6 Suppression of a mitochondrial point mutation Rinaldi, T. u U 1994 | 7 Extrachromosomal plasmids in the plant pathog Jabaji-Hare, S. 1994 | 8 Mitochondrial DNA variation within and betwee Sperling, F.A.H 1994 | 9 Transposable group II introns in fission and Schmidt, W.M. u 1994 | 10 DNA fragments of organellar origin in random Lorenz, M. u Hu 1994 | 11 Identification of RAPD markers linked to a fe Delourme, R. u 1994 | 12 Mitochondrial DNA variation in somatic embryo DeVerna, L.L. u 1994 | 13 Lack of mitochondrial DNA variation in an int Broughton, R.E. 1994 | 14 Organelle genes and genomes Gillham, Nichol 1994 | 15 Oxidative phosphorylation diseases and mitoch Shoffner, J.M. 1994 | 16 Somatic hybrids with substitution type genomi Mukhopadhyay, A 1994 | 17 Mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment length Varga, J. u Uni 1994 | 18 Experimental supports to a sixteen-strands mo De Pinto, V. u 1994 | 19 The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of th Xu, X. 1994 | 20 Homing of a group II intron in yeast mitochon Lazowska, J. 1994 | 21 NADH dehydrogenase subunit genes in the mitoc Nosek, J. 1994 | 22 Genomic structure, expression and evolution o Gregerson, R.G. 1994 | 23 ATP aynthase of yeast mitochondria isolation Giraud, M.F. 1994 | 24 Comparison of RFLP and RAPD markers to estima Thormann, C.E. 1994 |_____________________________________________________________________________
About half of Biological and Agricultural Index is 'agricultural', but there's also good coverage of zoology, ecology, microbiology, etc. DATABASE: BiolAgrIndex LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:chaos FOUND 42 Records ____NO.__AUTHOR_____________TITLE___________________________________YEAR | | 1 Babloyantz, A. Computation with chaos: a paradigm for co 1994 | 2 Kirkwood, T. B. Cycles, chaos, and evolution in virus cul 1994 | 3 Kirkwood, T. B. Networks and chaos (book review). 1994 | 4 Rousch, W. B. A nonlinear dynamical (chaos) approach to 1994 | 5 Sprent, Janet I. Evolution and diversity in the legume-rhi 1994 | 6 Prank, Klaus. Is there low-dimensional chaos in pulsati 1994 | 7 Jensen, Roderick NATO ASI series, Series B, Physics (book 1993 | 8 McCann, Kevin. Biological conditions for chaos in a thre 1994 | 9 Elbert, Thomas. Chaos and physiology: deterministic chaos 1994 | 10 Hjelmfelt, A. Pattern recognition, chaos, and multiplic 1994 | 11 Hastings, Alan. Chaos in ecology: is mother nature a stra 1993 | 12 Philippe, P. Chaos, population biology, and epidemiolo 1993 | 13 Nowak, Martin. Chaos and the evolution of cooperation. 1993 | 14 Vandermeer, John Loose coupling of predator-prey cycles: e 1993 | 15 Burton, M. Some illustrations of chaos in community 1993 | 16 Dutta, Chitra. Mathematical characterization of Chaos Ga 1992 | 17 Boyles-Sprenkel, Watershed wars: wetlands in chaos. 1992 | 18 Schimz, Angelika Nonrandom structures in the locomotor beh 1992 | 19 Weiss, Michael D Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics: an econom 1991 | 20 Logan, J. A. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in insect po 1992 | 21 Yip, Kay-Pong. Chaos in blood flow control in genetic an 1991 | 22 Altenberg, Lee. Chaos from linear frequency-dependent sel 1991 | 23 Hastings, Alan. Chaos in a three-species food chain. 1991 | 24 Wang, Lipo. Oscillations and chaos in neural networks 1990 |_____________________________________________________________________________ DATABASE: BiolAgrIndex LIMITED TO: SEARCH: su:mitochondrial dna FOUND 637 Records ____NO.__AUTHOR_____________TITLE_______________________________________Y EAR | | 1 Elliott, N. G. Allozyme and mitochondrial DNA variation 1994 | 2 Yoon, C. K. Mitochondrial DNA variation among the Dro 1994 | 3 Bouchon, Didier. Mitochondrial DNA variation and markers o 1994 | 4 Ward, Robert D. A comparison of allozymes and mitochondri 1994 | 5 Santos, Maria. mtDNA variation in the Chibcha Amerindian 1994 | 6 Roehrdanz, R. L. Limited mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in 1994 | 7 Boom, J. D. G. Mitochondrial DNA variation in introduced 1994 | 8 Brown, Jonathan Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the Prodox 1994 | 9 Simon, Chris. Evolution, weighting, and phylogenetic ut 1994 | 10 Torroni, Antonio mtDNA and the origin of Caucasians: ident 1994 | 11 Kanazawa, Akira. Reversible changes in the composition of 1994 | 12 Marienfeld, Joac The maize NCS2 abnormal growth mutant has 1994 | 13 Skibinski, D. O. Sex-limited mitochondrial DNA transmissio 1994 | 14 Ballard, J. Will Unraveling selection in the mitochondrial 1994 | 15 Rand, David M. Neutral and non-neutral evolution of Dros 1994 | 16 Black, William C Phylogeny of hard- and soft-tick taxa (Ac 1994 | 17 Staples, Robin R Suppressor analyses of temperature-sensit 1994 | 18 Herrmann, Johann Mitochondrial heat shock protein 70, a mo 1994 | 19 Randi, E. Mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence amo 1994 | 20 Lazowska, Jaga. Homing of a group II intron in yeast mito 1994 | 21 Cronin, Matthew Mitochondrial DNA variation in Atlantic a 1994 | 22 Sperling, Felix Mitchondrial DNA variation within and bet 1994 | 23 Grewe, Peter M. Stability of allozyme and mitochondrial D 1994 | 24 Ruvolo, Maryelle Gene trees and hominoid phylogeny. 1994 |_____________________________________________________________________________