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- AABGA - homepage of the American
Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, includes directory, searchable
library catalog, useful links, etc.
- AgDB - a large
collection of databases from the Department of Agriculture
- Aquatic and Wetland
Plant Glossary
- Botanical Checklist of North America,
searchable distribution maps of vascular flora
- Checklist
of lichens of North America
- Flora of North America
- Forest Service databases
- fire effects, forest inventory, pests, etc.
- International
Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code)
- International Organization for
Plant Information - primarily of interest to researchers looking
for floristic datasets, but also developing a global plant checklist
of interest to all
- Internet Directory for Botany
- extensive list of resources, a search engine, alpha & subject
indexes
- National Agricultural
Library databases - genome databases, includes Insect Reference
- Plant Fossil
Record - searchable descriptions and paleogeographic maps of extinct
plants
- PLANTS National Database - provides
standardized names and symbols used by researchers
- Tree-Ring Web Pages -
resources for dendochronology
- WWW Virtual
Library for Botany
- Aquatic Ecology
Home Page - directories, factsheets, etc., international in scope
- Biodiversity
and Conservation - hypertext book by P. Bryant, University of California,
Irvine. Includes tables, charts, links to other resources.
- Conservation Ecology
- an online journal from the Ecological Society of America
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- maintains lists of directories; the Clearing-House Mechanism, an excellent
source for the text of international conventions on biodiversity; meeting
calendars; etc.
- COSEWIC - Canadian endangered
species list
- Ecology, Biodiversity
and the Environment - part of the Virtual Library, links to resources
- Ecological Society of
America - meetings, links, publications, etc.
- IUCN - The World Conservation
Union - lists of regional groups and activities, maps and statistics
of natural resources, directories, etc., make this an outstanding research
site.
- Links to Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology - directories, indices, institutes, journals, reference,
etc.
- Bibliography
of Genetic Variation in Natural Popular - searchable
fields, and records can be downloaded - emphasis on fish, but not exclusively
- Biological Structure Resource
- Nucleic Acid Database, molecular structure databases,
and databases for monomer units and ligands; from Rutgers University
- Carthew
Lab Manual - protocols for Drosophila research, including food preparation,
quarantine and mutagenesis procedures, etc.
- Drosophila Virtual Library
- genes and sequencing, stocks, virtual encyclopedias, etc.
- Glossary of Genetic
Terms - need RealPlayer or equivlent to hear the spoken definitions,
but text definitions are also provided
- National Center for Biotechnology
Information - numerous genetic databases, most importantly GenBank
and its search tools, Entrez and BLAST. GenBank contains
over 3 million sequence records and is constantly growing. Other NCBI
resources include Gene Map of the Human Genome, OMIM, Retrovirus Resources,
etc.
- National Human Genome
Research Institute - Human Genome Project, grant information, public
policy issues, news, and more
- Primer
on Molecular Genetics
Arabidopsis thaliana (wall cress)
- Arabinet
- annotated list of Arabidopsis information available on the Internet.
- TAIR:
The Arabidopsis Information Resource - provides access to genetic information
about Arabidopsis including a “Sequence Viewer” for accessing
data on the Arabidopsis genome
Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode)
Danio rerio (zebrafish)
Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly)
Escherichia coli (intestinal bacterium)
Mouse
Rat
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Budding yeast)
- Bacterial Nomenclature
up-to-date - a complete list of names, with type, author, and citation
information.
- Classification
Literature Automated Search Service - search for articles on classification
from over 8000 journals, books, etc.
- ITIS taxonomic
name search - search by scientific or common name for plants and animals
of North America
- List of Bacterial Names with
Standing in Nomenclature - a searchable, extensively annotated list
of validly published names
- Orthoptera Species
File Online - taxonomic information and images for over 25,000 species
- Species2000 - groups together
several databases, on its way to including every organism in the world
- Taxonomic Resources and Expertise
Directory - a directory of experts
- The Tree
of Life - great resource for taxonomic, life history, geographic distribution
of organisms - but you may not find the organism you are looking for.
Search by scientific name for best results, or browse the
phylogenetic trees
- TreeBASE: A Database
of Phylogenetic Knowledge - phylogenetic trees and bibliographic information
useful for studies in evolution, biogeography, conservation,
etc. Data are obtained from published and in press articles. Sponsored
by National Science Foundation, Harvard, and UC Davis. ADVANCED
- Zoonomen: Zoological Nomenclature
Resource (Birds of the World), valid names and citation information
for almost 10,000 bird species. Organized by genus
-
Biosis Internet Guide to Zoology
- Crocodilian,
Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World - a checklist of the 271
species of crocs, tuatara, and turtles
- East
Coast of North America Strategic Assessment Project Groundfish Atlas
- 99 species distribution maps
- FishBase WWW
- a vast resource for use in popular studies, physiology,
ecology, taxonomy, policy, etc.
- Hymenoptera
On-Line Database - find citations, locations of specimens, collection
points, etc. From Ohio State University, under development
- Iowa State Entomology Index
of Internet Resources - includes bibliographies, checklists, databases,
directories, etc.
- Keys
to Marine Invertebrates of the Woods Hole Region
- Mammal Species of the World
- includes searchable index, distributions and status, type specimens,
and references
- Review
of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources - from FAO, with graphs
and statistics
- WWW Virtual Library for
the Biosciences - links to more links in the life sciences
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