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Useful links for Biology

Library Databases for Biology
Electronic Biology Journals
Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Taxonomy Indexes
General Biology Sites
Botany sites
Environment and Ecology
Bioinformatics and Genomics sites
Microbiology


General Biology sites

Biology Browser
This site is compiled by BIOSIS and contains links to many useful Biology resources including Biosis Essentials which includes weekly updated links to over one hundred international life sciences publications table of contents.

The Encyclopedia of Life
The EOL is in development and aims to provide a comprehensive ecosystem of websites aggregating all known data from scientists and amateurs about every living species.

Flinders University School of Biological Sciences
Includes course information, staff and research interests.

The Mammal Species of the World
The MSW contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus.

The Tree of Life Web Project
A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.

WWW Virtual Library: Natural Sciences
Links to resources on biochemistry, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, entomology, fish, genetics, microbiology, mycology and neurobiology.

Yahoo: Biology
Links on a wide range of topics including biochemistry, biodiversity, biomedical engineering, biospeleology, botany, cellular biology, ecology, neurosciences and zoology.


Botany sites

Australian Plants Society
Information about the society, growing native plants and the full text of their newsletter Australian Plants Online.

Botanical Society of America
Links to topics in botanical research, including the full text of American Journal of Botany Online and Plant Science Bulletin news articles and links to many other botany related web sites.

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium
Contains information on botanical research, conservation, management and use of the Australian flora.

National Plant Photographic Index
A searchable databases of Australian plant photographs produced by Australian National Botanic Gardens.

The Plant Kingdom
Page of useful information and links relating to the Plant Kingdom.


Environment and Ecology

Australian Biodiversity Information Facility
The Australian node for the 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility'.

Australian Biological Resources Study
Provides taxonomic and biological information on Australian species and includes the Australian Faunal Directory

Australian Greenhouse Office

Australia's Biosphere Reserves

Biodiversity and Conservation
An online textbook by Peter Bryant, School of Biological Sciences, University of California.

Ecotourism
An overview of Ecotourism by Heather A. Lindsay as part of the CSA Hot Topic Series. Includes links to ecotourism sites.

EMBL Reptile Database
A searchable database of taxonomic information on all living reptile species. It provides scientific names, synonyms, distributions and related data.

Environment Australia: Biodiversity Group
Resources on biodiversity, plants and animals, environments, conservation programs and protected areas. It also has links to the library catalogues of The Biodiversity Group and the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Forestry and Vegetation Sciences
From the Bureau of Rural Sciences providing information on the status of Australian forest, plantation and vegetation resources.

The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a collection of over 1700 World Wide Web pages containing information about the diversity of life. The relationships between organisms, and their history and characteristics, are presented linked together in the form of an 'evolutionary tree'.

Yahoo: Ecology
Links on a wide range of topics including conservation, fire ecology, global warming, human ecology, sustainable development.


Bioinformatics & Genomics sites

Bioethics.Net
Bioethics news and resources, including cloning and genetics.

Bioinformatics.org
Website of Bioinformatics.org. Contains useful links to Bioinformatics and Genomics information.

The Genome Database
Can be searched by genomic segment, dna sequence or by citation or person.

Human Genome Resources
NCBI's Web site serves an an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers.

Human Mitochondrial Protein Database
Provides comprehensive data on mitochondrial and human nuclear encoded proteins involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and function.

Molecular Biology Reference Desk
Links to the genetic code at the National Institutes of Health and anino acid and protein data.

Omics Gateway
Produced by Nature, this site includes a library of research papers, including all genome-related papers from Nature and Nature Genetics Also has a news service from Nature and Nature Genetics. and links to major genomics sites.

Silencing Genomes
Created by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, this is an interactive website informing visitors about the ways in which RNAi functions.

Virology Down Under
Australian and international links on virology and gene therapy.

Yahoo: Genetics
Resources on cloning, Dna Structure, genetic engineering, genome project, human genetics, molecular biology; and links to institutes, organizations,lab groups, journals and web directories.

Microbiology

American Society for Microbiology
The ASM web site provides general information about the Society as well as information about their publications, meetings, etc.

Microbes.info
Microbiology Information Portal

Microbiology
Links to full text recent articles, an on-line course, an on-line text book and other sites.

Yahoo: Microbiology
Resources on aerobiology, microorganisms, microscopy, prions, and virology; as well as links to institutes and organizations, labgroups, usenet and web directories.


Please direct all comments to author,
Gillian Eldridge
Science Liaison Librarian
Flinders University Library.