Biology Resources - The University Libraries

Internet Resources

Anatomy and Development

The Heart: An Online Exploration - A basic look at how the heart develops and it's structures. This web site also, provides tips on heart health and a look back at the "history of heart science." Developed by The Franklin Institute Science Museum with support from Unisys Corporation.

The Visible Human Projec t - The National Library of Medicine. The aim of the Visible Human Project is to create a digital image dataset of complete human male and female cadavers in MRI, CT and anatomical modes.

Virtual Embryo - a developmental biology tutorial. Includes links to additional developmental biology resources.
Virtual Frog Dissection Kit - This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages.

Botany

American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta - "the professional association for public gardens in North America, supporting the public horticulture community in its mission to study, display and conserve plants."

Australian National Botanic Gardens - The Australian National Botanic Gardens, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Nature Conservation Agency, and links to other Australian Botanical resources.

Carnivorous Plant Database - "This database includes over 3000 entries giving an exhaustive nomenclatural synopsis of all Carnivorous Plants."

National Garden Association, Gardener's Dictionary & Plant Name Finder - Provides a horticultural dictionary and name finder that contains thousands of horticultural terms and common plant names. Scientific names of plants maybe found by entering common plant name.
Poisonous Plant Database (PLANTOX) - "a set of working files of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants and herbal products of the world."

Plant Gene Register - "An Electronic publication for articles describing the isolation and DNA sequence determination of plant genes." Includes full text searching.

PLANTS National Database - "provides a single source of standardized information about plants. PLANTS provides standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information."
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Conservation Biology

Conservation Biology - a clearinghouse for information on academic opportunities in Conservation Biology and related research.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report 2002 - "The Living Planet Report seeks to present a quantitative picture of the sate of the world's natural environment and the human pressures upon it. Specifically, it presents WWF's Living Planet Index (LPI), a measure of the change in the health of the world's natural ecosystems since 1970, focusing on the earth's forest, freshwater, and marine biomes as these contain most of the earth's biodiversity."

Also see Ecology
Also see Ornithology
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Ecology

Virtual Library of Biodiversity and Ecology - comprehensive list of ecological resources on the internet.

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Entomology

University of Florida Book of Insect Records - "a book that names insect champions and documents their achievements."
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Genetics

Jackson Laboratory - The world's largest mammalian genetic research facility
GenomeNet WWW server - Kyoto University Bioinformatics Center.
Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA - Oregon State University, The Valley Library Special Collections. Primary source material (scanned documents, audio and video clips) document the discovery of the double helix.
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Molecular Biology

All the Virology on the WWW - virology related web sites.
ExPASy Molecular Biology Server - the ExPASy World Wide Web (WWW) molecular biology server of the Geneva University Hospital and the University of Geneva. This server is dedicated to the analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequences as well as 2-D PAGE

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Ornithology

National Audubon Society - the official web site of the National Audubon Society. This site provide information on bird and wildlife conservation. Includes information about the National Audubon Society, conservation internship and job opportunities, the current table of contents for Audubon Magazine.

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center - Wide variety of information on ornithology.

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Phylogeny and Taxonomy

ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

The Tree of Life - "The Tree of Life is a project designed to contain information about the phylogenetic relationships and characteristics of organisms, to illustrate the diversity and unity of living organisms, and to link biological information available on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator."

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Other Scientific Resources

California State University Biological Sciences WWW Server

Extreme Science - Science Education site. Includes "gallery of world records in science and meet some of the way cool scientists who are out on the edge studying this stuff!"

Nanoworld Image Gallery - Images from the Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis the University of Queensland. Includes images of white blood cells, bone marrow, and many more.

National Academies Press 3000+ online books.
Many of these books also appear in our catalog, so this site is most useful for viewing recent releases that haven't yet been added to our catalog. Instructions for searching the NAP website.

NBCI - National Center for Biotechnology Information

NSDL - National Science Digital Library. The comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

Science.gov A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

Scientific and Technical Information - A wealth of energy, science, and technology R&D information from the Manhattan Project to the present. Hosted by OSTI, the U.S. Dept of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Union of Concerned Scientists Independent nonprofit alliance of 100,000 scientists and citizens using scientific analysis, policy development and citizen advocacy to promote clean air, energy and transportation.

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