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ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 

Atlas of the Body
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html
    From the AMA: male and female reproductive systems, muscles, nerves, more.

Digital Human
http://www.fas.org/dh/index.html

Gray's Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Guided Tour of the Visible Human
http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/

Neuroscience Gateway
http://brain-map.org/welcome.do;jsessionid=4AF00C5FDB8BCB6714D0F5CE2966EEAA

Vesalius, Andreas' On the Fabric of the Human Body
http://vesalius.northwestern.edu

Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html 

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/ 

Nobel E-Museum
http://nobelprize.org/nobelmuseum/index.html

Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Biodiversity & Biological Collections
http://www.biocollections.org/

Bioexplorer.Net
http://www.biolinks.net.ru/ 

Biology Browser
http://www.biologybrowser.org

Biology Project (BP)
http://www.biology.arizona.edu

BioResearch
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/bioresearch/

BioTech: Life Sciences Resources and Reference Tools
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/

Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences: Some free features
http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/047001590X/home/

Extreme Science 
http://www.extremescience.com

How to Find Out in Biological Sciences
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/howtobiol.html
     A research guide to finding information in the biological sciences.

Kimball's Biology Pages
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/
     Online biology textbook written by former professor at Tufts and Harvard 
 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/

World Biodiversity Database
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WBD.html
     Taxonomic database- aims to document all known species
 

BOTANY

AlgaeBase
http://www.algaebase.org/
     Taxonomic database of algae
 
Arabidopsis Book
http://www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/
     Compilation of over 100 invited articles on Arabidopsis thaliana

Aves.net: The Freshwater Dinoflagellates
http://aves.net/algaeweb/

Biotechnology, An Information Resource (BIC) - USDA (not updated since 2001)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

Botany 301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfp/tfphome1.html

CalFlora Database
http://calflora.org/ 

California Wildflowers
http://research.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/index.html

Conservation and Environmental Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cnsvhome.html 

Fungi of California: Edible Fungi
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/edible.html

Guide to Poisonous Plants
http://www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/

HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org/

Hort.net
http://www.hort.net/
"Hort.net is developed and maintained by Mallorn Computing, a Web hosting company that specializes in horticultural Web sites. Though Important features include a Gallery of Plants, Plant Profiles, mailing lists, top stories, and Tom Clothier's Archive. The gallery, searchable by common or scientific name, includes over 3,800 plants and 1,800 images with information on the type of plant and its family. Currently there are 15 plant profiles, with detailed information on all aspects of each plant, e.g., habitat, propagation, and foliage.

International Plant Name Index (IPNI)
http://www.ipni.org/

Internet Directory for Botany
http://www.botany.net/IDB/

Introduction to the Green Algae
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/greenalgae/greenalgae.html 

Jepson Flora Project
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jepman.html

John Clayton Herbarium
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/clayton-herbarium/index.html

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research: Life in the dark: plant growth beneath sea ice
http://www.niwa.co.nz/pubs/wa/ma/11-3/beneath

Natural Perspective: The Fungus Kingdom
http://www.perspective.com/nature/fungi/index.html

New York Botanical Garden: Vascular Plant Type Catalog
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/

Oregon State University Mycological Collections: Type and General Collections databases
http://ocid.nacse.org/research/herbarium/myco/index.html

Plant DNA C-Values Database 
http://data.kew.org/cvalues/homepage.html

Plants Database
http://plants.usda.gov/

Royal Botanic Gardens KEW
http://www.kew.org/

Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands  
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/b98/check98.htm 

Tree Conservation Information Service
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/trees/

U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources (USDA)
http://plants.usda.gov/

UCMP - Paleobotany Collection: Catalogs and Information
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/paleobotany_coll.php

Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/ 

DATABASES, DIRECTORIES, SEARCH ENGINES, PORTALS


BioNetbook: A Directory of Web Pages for Biology
http://www1.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html

Catalog of US Government Publications
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
Searches publications from 1994 to date.

CRCnetBASE (searchable only)
http://www.crcnetbase.com/
Separate databases of CRC handbooks - "your one stop shop for an ever-growing supply of authoratative information" - on the environment, forensics, biotechnology, food, statistics, chemistry, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals, and more.

Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/

PrimateLit
http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/

Science.gov 2.0
http://www.science.gov/
Web portal - gateway - to vast stores of reliable federal science and technology information.  Access by subject 30 databases from 12 major science agencies.   

Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp
Free search engine for science, from ScienceDriect.  Searches Medline, ScienceDirect, USPTO, ArXiv.org, Biomed Central full-text articles, NASA technical reports, and the full text articles from Project Euclid.

 E-BOOKS

Biodiversity and Conservation
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm
     A hypertext book by Peter J. Bryant, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Biologica Centrali-Americana  (Electronic)
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/
     19th Century natural history of the flora and fauna of Meso-America.  58 volumes

Botany Online: The Internet Hypertextbook
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e00/contents.htm

Ergito: The Revolution in Scientific Publishing
http://www.ergito.com/index.jsp
     Free E-Books from Benjamin Lewin: Cell Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Immunology, Introduction to Biology

FlyNome: A Database of Drosophila Nomenclature
http://www.flynome.com/
     How individual genes were named.

Field Guide to Anemone Fishes and their Host Sea Anemones
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html

Gray's Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
"Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web"

Vesalius, Andreas' On the Fabric of the Human Body
http://vesalius.northwestern.edu 

EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
http://earthtrends.wri.org/

Ecology WWW Page 
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Ecology/Ecology-WWW.html

NatureServe: A Network Connecting Science with Conservation
http://www.natureserve.org/

EDUCATION

BioChemHub: The Online Biology and Chemistry Education Center
http://biochemhub.com  

 ENDANGERED SPECIES

California's Plants and Animals
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/species/list.html

Endangered Species Home Page
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/

Endangered Species Recovery Plans Online
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/recovery/index.html

Endangered Species UPDATE
http://www.umich.edu/~esupdate/

Environmental Links- Endangered Species
http://eelink.net/pages/Environmental+Links+-+Endangered+Species

2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Ant Database
http://entomology.si.edu/

AntWeb
http://www.antweb.org/ 

Antlion Pit: A Doodlebug Anthology
http://www.antlionpit.com

Bombus: List of World Bumble Bees
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/index.html

Bug Bios
http://www.insects.org

Butterflies and Moths of the World (Natural History Museum in London)
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/butmoth/index.html

Butterflies of North America
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/

California Dragonflies & Damselflies aka California Odonata
http://www.sonic.net/dragonfly/

Global Lepidoptera Names Index (Natural History Museum of London)
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/lepindex/index.html

NMNH Entomology
http://entomology.si.edu/

Nomina Insecta Nearctica
http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/main.htm

Robber Flies (Asilidae)
http://www.geller-grimm.de/asilidae.htm

Singing Insects of North America
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/

Tarantulas.com
http://www.tarantulas.com

Termites  (Texas A & M University)
http://termites.tamu.edu/index.html

Universal Chalcidoidea Database
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/

ENZYMES

BRENDA: The Comprehensive Enzyme Information System
http://www.brenda.uni-koeln.de/

ENZYME: Enzyme Nomenclature Database
http://www.expasy.ch/enzyme/ 

FUN

Campus Squirrel Listings
http://gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm

Natural Perspective: The Fungus Kingdom
http://www.perspective.com/nature/fungi/index.html

123Genomics
http://123genomics.homestead.com/files/home.html

Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) Home Page -- TIGR
http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/CmrHomePage.cgi

Dolan DNA Learning Center (Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory)
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

Entrez (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html

GenBank
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankOverview.html 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankSearch.html 

Genes and Disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=gnd.preface.91

Genetics Education Center
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/ 

Genome Database
http://www.gdb.org/ 

Genomic Revolution
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/genomics/

Genomics and Its Impact on Medicine and Society: The Human Genome Project and Beyond (2003)
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer2001/ 

Jeff Cohlberg's Biochemistry Links
http://www.csulb.edu/~cohlberg/biochemlinks.html 

Judy Brusslan's Web Links of Interest
http://www.csulb.edu/~bruss/ 

NCBI Entrex Taxonomy Homepage
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=taxonomy 

New Gene Map of the Human Genome: GeneMap '99
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/genemap99/ 

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM

Ribosomal Database Project
http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/

California Academy of Sciences - Ichthyology: Annotated Checklists of Fishes
http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/annotated/index.html

Desert Fishes Council
http://www.desertfishes.org/index.html

Digital Fish Library  
http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org

Field Guide to Anemone Fishes and their Host Sea Anemones
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html

FishBase
http://www.fishbase.gr/search.php

Ichthyology Web Resources
http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/jackson.hp/IWR/index.php

Monkfish Research Survey
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/read/popdy/monkfish/

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) Fish Collection
http://www.nhm.org/research/fishes/

Natural History Museum's Fish Specimen Collection
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/fish/index.html

American Environmental Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ecology/

Cells Alive!
http://www.cellsalive.com/ 

Crittercam
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crittercam/video_previews.html

Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy, Inc.
http://www.denniskunkel.com/

Forestry Images: The Source for Forest Health, Natural Resources, and Silviculture Images
http://www.forestryimages.org/

Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
http://content.lib.washington.edu/fishweb/index.html

Junglewalk.com
http://www.junglewalk.com

Microscopy Images from NHMFL: Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery
    Nucleotide Collection: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/nucleotides/nucleotides.html
    Phytochemical Collection: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/phytochemicals/phytochemical.html
    Dinosaur Bone Collection: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/dinosaur/dinobones.html
    Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html

Nature Picture Library
http://www.naturepl.com/

Search Engines 
   AltaVista's Image Search
   AccuNet / AP Multimedia Archive: CSULB library subscription
   Ditto 
   FAST Multimedia Search 
   Google Images Search 

INVASIVE SPECIES 

Invasive, Exotic, Aquatic and Wetland Plants in the Western United States
http://wapms.org/plants/

Invasive Species Information Node
http://invasivespecies.nbii.gov/partners.html

Invasive Species Specialist Group
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/

ISSG's Global Invasive Species Database
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/ 

TNC Invasive Species Initiative
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/

MAMMALOGY
 
International Whaling Commission
http://www.iwcoffice.org/

International Wolf Center: Wolf Bibliography
http://www.wolf.org/

Introduction to Bats (USFWS)
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/bats/bats.htm

Mammal Species of the World
http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw/ 

Mammals of Texas online edition (Texas Tech University)
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/Default.htm

PrimateLit: A bibliographic database for primatology
http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/

Ultimate Ungulate Page:Your Guide to the World's Hoofed Mammals
http://www.ultimateungulate.com/index.html

Vision Internet Services: Cetacea
http://www.cetacea.org/

Wolves: Wolf Recovery Programs - Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/wildlife_conservation/imperiled_species/wolves/index.php

MARINE BIOLOGY/ OCEANOGRAPHY 

Census of Marine Life Portal
http://www.coml.org/coml.htm

Coral Reef Information System: Discover NOAA/s Data
http://coris.noaa.gov/data/welcome.html

Crittercam
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crittercam/video_previews.html

European Register of Marine Species http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php

Ghent University: Marine Biology Section
http://marbiol.vliz.be/

MarineBio
http://www.marinebio.com/

Marine Realms Information Bank
http://mrib.usgs.gov/
    Marine Realms Information Bank, prepared by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program at the Woods Hole Field Center and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is intended to organize and provide access to documents and resources relating to the marine and coastal environment.

NOAA's National Ocean Service
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

Ocean Atlas of Hawaii
http://radlab.soest.hawaii.edu/atlas/

OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
http://www.iobis.org/

Office of Naval Research Science & Technology Focus: Oceanography
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/

Preliminary Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy: Governors' Draft (4/2004)
http://oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/

Southern California Swell Model
http://cdip.ucsd.edu/?nav=recent&sub=nowcast

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans
http://www.oceansatlas.com/index.jsp

UCSD-Scripps Institution of OceanographyLibrary: Diving Under Antarctic Ice
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/

Vents Program
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/

All the Virology on the WWW
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html

Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) Home Page -- TIGR
http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/CMRHomePage.spl

ICTVdB: The Authorized Universal Virus Database
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/

Immunobiology Animations
http://www.blink.uk.com/immunoanimations/

NEWS

Eureka Alert! A Service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.eurekalert.org
    Public not required to register.  Offers a Marine Science Portal

New York Times Science Section
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
    The Science Times is recommended to anyone interested in keeping current with general topics, from astronomy to health, geology to mathematics.

ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceNews
http://www.sciencenews.org/

Scientific American's News Briefs
http://www.sciam.com/

UK NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

 NOBEL PRIZES

Nobel E-Museum
http://nobelprize.org/nobelmuseum/index.html

AOU Check-list of North American Birds   7th edition
http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3

Bird Checklists of the United States
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/chekbird/index.htm

Bird Families of the World: Sibley and Monroe
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/winkler/botw/birds.html

Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/gee/cranbook/cranebook.htm

University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu 

bioProtocol
http://www.bioprotocol.com/protocolstools/index.jhtml

STEM CELLS

AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Congress: Policy Brief: Stem Cell Research
http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/briefs/stemcells/

Columbus State University's CBE Style for Electronic Resources
http://lib.colstate.edu/info/ecbe.shtml

Index Translationum (UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/

Internet Public Library: Pathfinder (for) Animal Species Classification
http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/PF/animalclass.html

ZOOS

Zoos Worldwide
http://www.zoos-worldwide.de/

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