American Type Culture Collection
Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology, including
hundreds of QuickTime VR object movies and close-up images of mammal skulls and teeth
Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL)
Bibliography of Systematic Mycology (CABI)
A survey of the literature encompassing the biodiversity, classification, distribution, evolution, identification, nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of fungi (including yeasts, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms), searchable by cited generic names or author names
Biodiversity Hotspots (Conservation International)
Includes Hotspots Revisted book online and searchable database of terrestrial vertebrates and links to additional resoureces
Biology Browser (Thomson BIOSIS)
BIOME (See: Intute: Health & Life Sciences)
BIOZONE Biolinks
Links to Internet resources for undergraduate students
Caltech MRI Atlases (Mouse Development; Mouse Lemur Brain)
CIPRES - Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research
A
national resource for phyloinformatics and computational phylogenetics funded by the National Foundation of Science.
Darwin Online
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online including access to the searchable
Freeman bibliographical database and Darwin manuscript catalogue
database.
Dictionary of Fungi (9th edition, CABI, 2001)
Searchable by generic name or view taxonomic hierarchy from the rank of Kindgom
Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project
A digital atlas of mouse development and gene expression database
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
A collection of web pages – one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species – that synthesizes biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being.
EPA Science Inventory (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects)
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region, a multimedia digital collection
Flybrain
An online atlas and database of the Drosophila nervous system
Fungi (CABI Bioscience Databases)
Global Biodiversity of Life Facility Data Portal
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
Human Genome Project Information (U.S. Dept. Energy)
Index Fungorum (CABI)
A searchable database of fungal names (including yeasts, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at species level and below
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (USGS Biological Informatics Office)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Internet Resources for Bryologists and Lichenologists
(American Bryological and Lichenological Society)
Access to to Checklists and Floras, Herbaria and Collections, Images and Information, Taxonomic Resources, Publications, Organizations, Directories, and List Servers
Intute: Health & Life Sciences
Formerly BIOME, provides access to web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists (based at the University of Nottingham, UK). There are over 31,000 resource descriptions listed that are freely accessible for keyword searching or browsing by subject. RSS feeds available.
Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
Libraries
Access to select local, regional, national and international library sites
Mammal Species of the World (
Division of Mammals of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; The American Society of Mammalogists; Bucknell University;
Johns Hopkins University Press)
A database of mammalian taxonomy. See also:
Mammalian species (American Society of Mammalogists)
Information on microbial diversity: images, classification schemes, descriptions of organisms, talks and other educational resources.
MicroscopyU - the Source for Microscopy Education (Nikon)
A collection of searchable electronic texts in the cognitive and brain sciences from the MIT Press
Molecular Expressions
Photo & video gallery of light microscopy images and tutorials
National Biological Information Infrastructure ( Biological Informatics Office of the U.S. Geological Survey)
North American Mammals (Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History)
A searchable database of all living mammals of North America
based on The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals, by Don E. Wilson and Sue Ruff (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999) and Mammals of North America, by Roland W. Kays and Don E. Wilson (Princeton University Press, 2002)
Plant Genomics Links (Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia)
PLANTS Database (National Resources Conservation Service, USDA)
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references.
Primate Info Net (Library and Information Service, National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Protist Image Database (Evolutionary & Integrative Genomics at the Université de Montréal)
Scirus
Search engine for the sciences
Species 2000 - Catalogue of Life Checklists
Tree of Life (ToL)
More than 10,000 web pages with information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history, and characteristics
United Nations Environment Programme -
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Access to a variety of biodiversity resources, including atlases and species data
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
Virology: All the Virology on the WWW