World Wide Web Resources in Biology & Related Fields

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World Wide Web Resources in Biology & Related Fields

Web Directories & Guides
Professional Associations
Academic Departments
Institutes, Laboratories & Research Centers
Museums, Zoos, Aquariums & Botanical Gardens
Government Agencies
U.S. Federal Agencies
U.S. State Agencies
Australian Government Agencies
Agencies of Selected Governments
Electronic Periodicals
Subject Specific Sites
General Biology
Plants & Fungi
Animals (General)
Invertebrates
Vertebrates: Birds
Vertebrates: Reptiles & Amphibians
Vertebrates: Mammals
Protists
Biodiversity/Wildlife Conservation/Endangered Species
Ecology
Ethical Issues
Genetics
Laboratory Information & Animal Welfare
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Microscopy
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Parasitology

Web Directories & Guides

AgDB (Agriculture-Related Information)	WWW Virtual Library--Botany
Aquatic Ecology Links	WWW Virtual Library--Cell Biology
Bio Online: Research & Academic Sites	WWW Virtual Library--Developmental Biology
Biodiversity & Biological Collections Web Server	WWW Virtual Library--Ecology, Biodiversity & the Environment
Biodiversity Servers	WWW Virtual Library--Entomology
Biological Resources of Interest to Teachers	WWW Virtual Library--Fish
Biology Links	WWW Virtual Library--Forestry
Biotech-Related WWW Sites & Documents	WWW Virtual Library--Genetics
Ecology WWW Page	WWW Virtual Library--Microbiology & Virology
Electronic Zoo: Animal Resources	WWW Virtual Library--Microscopy
Entomology Index of Internet Resources	WWW Virtual Library--Model Organisms
Infomine: Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences	WWW Virtual Library--Mycology
Internet Directory for Botany	WWW Virtual Library--Neuroscience
Neurosciences on the Internet	WWW Virtual Library--Oceanography
WWW Virtual Library--Agriculture	WWW Virtual Library--Physiology & Biophysics
WWW Virtual Library--Biotechnology

Professional Associations
    For General Science Associations, click here (still under construction)
    For Medical Associations, click here (still under construction)
    For Environmental Associations, click here

Directories	Ecological Society of America
Professional Societies & Organizations in Natural History	Endocrine Society
Resources of Scholarly Societies--Biology	Entomological Society of America
Associations	Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science	Federation of Animal Science Societies
American Association of Anatomists	Genetics Society of America
American Association of Immunologists	Human Behavior & Evolution Society
American Fisheries Society	Institute of Biological Engineering
American Institute of Biological Sciences	International Association for Great Lakes Research
American Microscopical Society	International Association for Plant Taxonomy
American Ornithologists Union	International Brain Research Organization
American Physiological Society	International Genetics Federation
American Phytopathological Society	International Marine Mammal Association
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	International Primatological Society
American Society for Cell Biology	International Society for Horticultural Science
American Society for Horticultural Science	International Union of Biological Sciences
American Society for Microbiology	International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
American Society for Nutrition Sciences	International Union of Microbiological Societies
American Society for Photobiology	Lepidopterists' Society
American Society of Agronomy	Linnean Society of London
American Society of Human Genetics	Microscopy Society of America
American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists	Mycological Society of America
American Society of Limnology & Oceanography	National Association of Biology Teachers
American Society of Mammologists	National Association of Marine Laboratories
American Society of Parasitologists	North American Benthological Society
American Society of Plant Physiologists	North American Lake Management Society
American Society of Plant Taxonomists	Oceanography Society
American Society of Primatologists	Organization of Biological Field Stations
American Zoo & Aquarium Association	Paleontological Society
Animal Behavior Society	Phycological Society of America
Association for Biology Laboratory Education	Protein Society
Association for Tropical Biology	Society for Conservation Biology
Association of College & University Biology Educators	Society for Developmental Biology
Association of Systematics Collections	Society for Economic Botany
Biochemical Society	Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
Biophysical Society	Society for Neuroscience
Botanical Society of America	Society of American Foresters
Coleopterists Society	Society of Wetland Scientists
Crop Science Society of America	Society of Protozoologists
	Wildlife Society

Academic Departments
Note: Multiple listings for a university result because no single page for biology departments
at the institution could be found.

University of Alabama--Birmingham (Cellular & Molecular)	Miami University (Botany)
California Institute of Technology	Miami University (Microbiology)
University of California--Berkeley (Integrative Biology)	Miami University (Zoology)
University of California--Berkeley (Molecular & Cellular)	University of Michigan
University of California--Berkeley (Plant & Microbial)	Michigan State University (Biochemistry)
University of California--Davis	Michigan State University (Botany & Plant Pathology)
University of California--Los Angeles	Michigan State University (Entomology)
University of California--San Diego	Michigan State University (Zoology)
University of California--San Francisco	Ohio State University
Case Western Reserve University	Ohio University (Biological Sciences)
University of Chicago	Ohio University (Environmental & Plant Biology)
University of Cincinnati	Ohio University (Molecular & Cellular Biology)
Columbia University	University of Pennsylvania
Cornell University	Princeton University (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Duke University (Botany)	Princeton University (Molecular Biology)
Duke University (Zoology)	Stanford University
University of Florida (Botany)	University of Washington (Botany)
University of Florida (Zoology)	University of Washington (Genetics)
University of Georgia	University of Washington (Microbiology)
Harvard University (Molecular & Cellular Biology)	University of Washington (Molecular & Cellular Biology)
Harvard University (Organismic & Evolutionary Biology)	University of Washington (Zoology)
University of Illinois--Urbana	Washington U. (Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics)
Indiana University--Bloomington	Washington U. (Cell Biology & Physiology)
Johns Hopkins University	University of Wisconsin--Madison (Botany)
Kent State University	University of Wisconsin--Madison (Genetics)
MIT (Biology)	University of Wisconsin--Madison (Microbiology)
MIT (Brain & Cognitive Science)	University of Wisconsin--Madison (Wildlife Ecology)
	University of Wisconsin--Madison (Zoology)
	Yale University

Institutes, Laboratories & Research Centers

Animal Welfare Information Center (USDA)	National Center for Biotechnology Information
Atlantic Oceanographic & Meterological Laboratory (NOAA)	National Human Genome Research Institute
Australian Institute of Marine Science	National Oceanographic Data Center
	National Wetlands Research Center (USGS)
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology	National Wildlife Health Center (USGS)
Duke University Primate Center	North Central Research Station (USDA Forest Service)
Ethnobotany Laboratory, U. of Michigan	Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
Forestry Sciences Laboratory (USDA)	Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)	Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (USGS)
Great Lakes Forest Information Center (Michigan State U.)	Pelagic Shark Research Foundation
Great Lakes Science Center (USGS)	Plant Genome Data & Information Center (USDA)
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation	Rocky Mountain Research Station (USDA Forest Service)
Institute for Molecular Virology (U. of Wisconsin)	Sanger Centre (Genome Research)
Institute for Systematic Biology (U. South Florida)	Shoals Marine Laboratory
Institute of Marine Science (U. of Southern Mississippi)	Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Jackson Laboratory (Genome Research)	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Joint Genome Institute	Southern Research Station (USDA Forest Service)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Human Genome Sequencing Dept.	Systematic Botany & Mycology Laboratory (USDA)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Biology Area)	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (USGS)
Midcontinent Ecological Science Center (USGS)	Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
	World Conservation Union (IUCN)

Museums, Zoos, Aquariums & Botanical Gardens

Directories	Matthaei Botanical Gardens (U. of Michigan)
American Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta	Missouri Botanical Garden
Links to University Museums	Monterey Bay Aquarium
Public Aquariums	Museos de Costa Rica
WWW Virtual Library--Museum Pages	National Herbarium of New South Wales
WWW Virtual Library--Zoos	National Museum of Natural History
	National Tropical Botanical Garden (Hawaii)
Specific Web Pages	National Zoological Park
American Museum of Natural History	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Arnold Arboretum (Harvard U.)	New York Botanical Garden
Australian Museums Online	Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens (Pittsburgh)
Australian National Botanic Gardens	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Bishop Museum (Honolulu)	Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History	San Diego Natural History Museum
Boyce Thompson Arboretum (AZ)	Shedd Aquarium (Chicago)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden	South African Museum
Canadian Museum of Nature	South Australian Museum
Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh)	Sydney Aquarium
Chicago Botanic Garden	U. of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden	U. of British Columbia Botanical Garden
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo	U. of Copenhagen Botanical Museum & Library
Cleveland Museum of Natural History	U. of Guelph Arboretum
Denver Museum of Natural History	U. of Michigan Herbarium
Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)	U. of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Florida Museum of Natural History	U. of Nebraska--Lincoln Botanical Garden & Arboretum
Harvard University Herbaria	Vancouver Aquarium
Holden Arboretum	Western Australia Museum
Intermountain Herbarium	Waikiki Aquarium
	Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Government Agencies

See Also the Government Documents Web Page	National Agricultural Library
U.S. Federal Agencies	National Biological Information Infrastructure
Dept. of Agriculture	National Biological Service
Dept. of Commerce	National Center for Health Statistics
Dept. of Health & Human Services	National Cancer Institute
Dept. of the Interior	National Institutes of Health
-------	National Library of Medicine
Agricultural Research Service	National Marine Fisheries Service
Centers for Disease Control	National Ocean Service
Fish & Wildlife Service	National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Admin
Food & Drug Administration	National Park Service
Food & Nutrition Service	National Science Foundation
Forest Service	Office of Animal Care & Use (NIH)
U.S. Geological Survey	Public Health Service
Man & the Biosphere Program

U.S. State Agencies	Kentucky Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet
State Departments of Energy, Environment & Natural Resources	Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources
State Departments of Agriculture	Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources
Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources	Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources
Illinois Natural History Survey	West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Australian Government Agencies	Northern Territory Dept. of Primary Industry & Fisheries
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry Australia	Northern Territory Parks & Wildlife Commission
Bureau of Rural Sciences	Queensland Dept. of Primary Industries
Environment Australia	Queensland Dept. of Natural Resources
Fisheries Western Australia	Tasmania Dept. of Primary Industries, Water & Env.
New South Wales Fisheries	Victoria Dept. of Natural Resources & Environment

Agencies of Selected Other Governments	India Ministry of Environment & Forests
Canadian Forest Service	New Zealand Dept. of Conservation
Canadian Wildlife Service	South African Dept. of Agriculture
Fisheries & Oceans Canada	South African Dept. of Water Affairs & Forestry

Electronic Periodicals (Note: These are full-text, online only periodicals, and do not include those found in the Electronic Journals Center)

Agricultural Research	Human Genome News
Animal Welfare Information Center Bulletin	InterJournal
Coleopterists Bulletin (1947-1981)	Internet Journal of Science: Biological Chemistry
Conservation Ecology	Issues in Science & Technology
Contemporary Herpetology	Kew Scientist
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology	Neuroscience-Net
Endangered Species Bulletin	Ornithological Newsletter Online
Endangered Species Update	Palaeontologia Electronica
Ethnobotanical Leaflets	Plant Science Bulletin
Experimental Biology Online	Recovery: An Endangered Species Newsletter (Canada)
Florida Entomologist	The Scientist: The News Journal for the Life Scientist
Gypsy Moth News	Silva Fennica (Forest Science)
HMS Beagle: The BioMedNet Magazine	World Wide Web Journal of Biology

Subject Specific Sites

General Biology	MIT Biology Hypertextbook
Access Excellence: A Place in Cyberspace for Biology Teaching & Learning	Ohio University's Introductory Biology Laboratories Instructional Website
Beyond Bio 101: The Transformation of Biology Education	Online Biology Book
BioChemNet	Phylogeny & Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees
The Biology Project (U. of Arizona)	Taxonomy on the Web
BioMedNet	The Tree of Life (Phylogeny)
Kimball's Biology Pages	Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Biology

Plants & Fungi
Directories	Flora Danica on Net (Denmark)
Internet Directory for Botany	Flora of China
WWW Virtual Library--Agriculture	Flora of North America
WWW Virtual Library--Botany	Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding
WWW Virtual Library--Forestry	Fungi & Primitive Plants of Western Kentucky
WWW Virtual Library--Mycology	Mosses & Liverworts in Wales
Specific Sites	Mycology Online
Adirondack Aquatic Institute Phytoplankton Images	North American Lichen Project
American Fern Society	Northeast Wetland Flora
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants	Parasitic Plant Connection
Atlas of Tennesse Vascular Plants	Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange
Atlas of the Flora of New England	PLANTS National Database
Bishop Museum Botany Home Page	Southern Wetland Flora
Ethnobotany	Yeast (Budding, Fission & Candida)

Animals (General)	Bishop Museum Vertebrate Zoology Home Page
Electronic Zoo: Animal Resources	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Animal Diversity Web	Internet Resource Guide to Zoology
Animal Omnibus (Birmingham Zoo)

Invertebrates	FlyBase: A Database of the Drosophila Genome
Beetle Links	Flybrain
Entomology Index of Internet Resources	Grasshoppers of Wyoming & the West
Internet Resouces for Lepidopterists	Gypsy Moth in North America
WWW Virtual Library--Entomology	Insect & Spider Collections of the World
Annelid Worm Biodiversity Resources	Katydids of La Selva, Costa Rica
AnoDB: An Anopheles Database	Malacology (Florida Mus. of Natural History)
Arachnology	Moths of North America
Biological Monitoring of Freshwaters--Benthic Macroinvertebrates	Ohio Odonata Society
Bishop Museum Entomology Home Page	Orthoptera Species File Online
Butterflies of North America	OSU Insect Collection
Celphalopod Page	Social Insects World Wide Web
Chironomid Home Page	Tachinid Times
Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections	Termites (Urban Entomology)
Drosophila Virtual Library	Virtual FlyLab
	Zebra Mussel Information

Vertebrates: Birds	Illinois Birds
American Birding Association	North American Bird Banding Program
Audubon Online	North American Breeding Birds Survey
Bird Atlas Web Sites (click on Web Links)	Peterson Online
BirdNet	Recent Ornithological Literature Online
Canadian Bird Trends Database	Recommended Methods for Monitoring Bird Populations by Counting & Capture of Migrants
Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry & Conservation	Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow
Electronic Resources on Ornithology	Spatial Patterns of New Zealand Bird Diversity

Vertebrates: Reptiles & Amphibians	Vertebrates: Fish
Amphibian Embryology Tutorial	Fish Information Service Index (Aquariums)
EMBL Reptile Database	Icthyology (Texas Natural History Collections)
FrogWeb	North American Freshwater Fishes Index
WWW Virtual Library: Xenopus	Upstream: Salmon & Society in the Pacific Northwest
	WWW Virtual Library--Fish

Vertebrates: Mammals	Skull Module (Human Cranial Anatomy)
Bat Conservation International	Whale Watching Web
Chimpanzees in Research	Wolves, Bears & Their Prey in Alaska
Primate Info Net

Protists	Dictyostelium Virtual Library
Algal Image Archive	Great Lakes Diatoms
Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences	Protistology
Diatom Home Page	Resources in Protistology

Biodiversity/Wildlife Conservation/Endangered Species: See the Environmental Studies Page

Ecology	Freshwater Ecosystems: Revitalizing Educational Programs in Limnology
Aquatic Ecology Links	Population Ecology
WWW Virtual Library--Ecology, Biodiversity & the Environment	Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science
Belize Biodiversity Information System	Regional Landscape Ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota & Wisconsin
The Bering Sea Ecosystem	Statistics for Ecologists
Biodiversity II: Understanding & Protecting Our Biological Resources	U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Fire Ecology Database	Wetlands: Characteristics & Boundaries

Ethical Issues	Ethical, Legal & Social Issues of the Human Genome Project
Animal Welfare & the Ethics of Animal Use	Ethics in Science
Bioethics.net	Your Genes, Your Choices

Genetics
WWW Virtual Library--Genetics	Human Genome Resources
Basic Prinicples of Genetics	MendelWeb
Drosophila Virtual Library	Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Entrez Databases	Primer on Molecular Genetics
Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity	To Know Ourselves (Human Genome Project)
FlyBase: A Database of the Drosophila Genome	Trans-NIH Mouse Initiative
Genetics & Biotechnology	Virtual FlyLab
Genetics Education Center (U. Kansas)	Yeast (Budding, Fission & Candida)

Laboratory Information & Animal Welfare	Environmental Enrichment of Nonhuman Primates Resource Guide
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine	Guide to Internet Resources: Animals in Research & Education
Animal Welfare Information Center (USDA)	Infectious Diseases of Mice & Rats Companion Guide
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins)	Principles of Humane Experimental Technique
Center for Animal Alternatives (UCLA)	Research Animal Resources (U. of Minnesota)
Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals	Rodents

Marine Biology	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
WWW Virtual Library--Oceanography	Plankton Net
Biological Sciences Database: Marine Biology	Understanding Marine Biodiversity

Microbiology	E. coli Index
Directories	Filamentous Marine Cyanobacteria
All the Virology on the WWW	Fundamentals of Microbiology 101
Guide to Microbiology on the Net	Glossary of Microbiology
WWW Virtual Library--Microbiology & Virology	Great Lakes Diatoms
Specific Sites	Information About Microbiology for the Public
Algal Image Archive	Introduction to the Cyanobacteria
Big Picture Book of Viruses	Life at High Temperatures
Diatom Home Page	Medical Microbiology
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology

Microscopy	Microscopes & Microscopy
WWW Virtual Library--Microscopy	Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope

Molecular & Cellular Biology
WWW Virtual Library--Cell Biology	Molecular Biology Desk Reference
The Cell	Molecular Biology Notebook
Cell Biology Hypertextbook	Molecular Biology of Viruses
Cells Alive!	NDB Biological Structure Resource
Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopedia	Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools
Dictionary of Cell Biology	Primer on Molecular Genetics

Parasitology	Parasitic Plant Connection
Parasites & Parasitological Resources	World of Parasites

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Last Updated 10/21/99
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Jeff Wanser wanserjc@hiram.edu