Biology Image Galleries - Directory of Online Biology Images, Photos, Microscopy & Illustrations.

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Finding [Science] Images on the Web - (dead link)
By Ruth Thomas, Boston Universities Libraries

Algal Microscopy & Image Digitization
Archive of over 185 digitized images
The archive consists mostly of light images of cleaned diatoms... There's also an archive of diatom scanning electron micrographs
Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization, Bowling Green State University

The Art of Botanical Illustration
An Exhibition in Special Collection, The University of Delaware
"...highlights selections from the University of Delaware's Special Collections which show the development of botanical illustration
from early printed books to the present day. The primary goal of
botanical illustration is not art, but scientific accuracy. It must
portray a plant with the precision and level of detail for it to be
recognized and distinguished from another species."
Sections include: Herbals, Travel & Exploration ; Scientific Botany ; Women Artists ; Seed Catalogs ; Modern Botanicals.
Curated by Iris Snyder

Atlas of Plant Anatomy
Sections include: Cells & Tissues ; Reproductive Structures ; Roots ; Stems ; Apical Meristems ; Leaves.
By Paul J. Schulte, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Autodax: Salamander Feeding Movies - (dead link)
"This website gives a sampling of the diverse feeding strategies used by salamanders. Feeding in salamanders is usually completed in only a small fraction of a second. The movies on this site were made using high-speed video cameras running at up to 1000 pictures per second."
By Stephen M. Deban, Dept. of Biology, University of Utah

The Big Picture Book of Viruses - (dead link)
"...intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the WWW and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses."
Garry Lab

BIODIC
Scanning electron microscope image catalog
"Our site contains more than 1100 high resolution images of ultrastructures taken with a SEM. They cover a large range of biological subjects...New images are added regularly and we will soon add textual explanations to the images."
Free University of Brussels

BIODIDAC (English or French)
A Bank of Digital Resources for Teaching Biology
Sections include: Organismal Biology ; Human Biology ; Histology.
Objective: "Create a bank of digital images, video, and animations that can be used and adapted for teaching Biology."
Currently [May 2002] contains 58491 items.

The BioImage Homepage
A European Initiative for a New Database of Multidimensional Biological Images.
"The BioImage Database project, funded by the European Union, is a collaboration between eight European groups. Its aim is to provide the general scientific community with a flexible and searchable database of multi-dimensional biological images."

Biological Illustration
Astronomical, Medical, Microbiological and Biological stock illustrations
From Russell Kightley Media

Biosystematics and National Parasite Collection
USDA image gallery

Bristol Biomedical Image Archive
"...is an online collection of about 8500 medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in teaching and learning. All the images have been donated by academics working in the biomedical fields in different countries."
Hosted at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, UK.

Center for Cell Imaging - (dead link)
Yale University School of Medicine

Chrysis.net
A Web Resource about Hymenoptera Chrysididae & Macrophotography
Sections include: Intro ; Database of the Italian Chrysididae ; Researches & Articles ; Image Gallery ; Photo Resources ; Links.

Cyanobacterial Image Gallery
By Mark A. Schneegurt

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Education Web Page - (dead link)
Science and Photography Through the Microscope
Sections include: Search the Image Library ; Zoom In! ; Most Wanted Bugs ; Microcosm Photo Exhibition ; Microscopy Links ; About Microscopy.

  • Image Library Search - (dead link)

Digitized Electron Micrographs of Viruses - (dead link)
Includes both animal and plant viruses
Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DNA, DNA-Protein Complexes & Virus
Electron Micrograph Library
Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Electron Micrographs of Animal Viruses - (dead link)
Queens University, Belfast

EMBL Virus Structure Resource
"This server provides images of virus structures determined by our group in the Structural Biology Programme at EMBL in Heidelberg."

Embryology Tutorial
"This tutorial is part of an ongoing project designed to implement multimedia and computer-based learning materials in the university undergraduate classroom...is meant to supplement the presentation of standard videotape, laser video, digitized video and animation sequences in the traditional lecture period."
By Jeff Hardin, Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin

FishScope
Zebrafish developmental biology movies.
"An archive of time-lapse recordings and confocal images
dealing with the developmental biology of fish."
Mark Cooper, Dept. of Zoology, University of Washington

Flora of Europe
A Photographic Herbarium
"an - amateur - photo-herbarium and at the beginning of 1997 it contains ca. 660 pictures of flowers, mostly of southern Europe. There are 284 species (63 families, 179 genera)."

Flowerbase Image Database
A database offering over 7,000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants

Guided Tour of the Visible Human
"The Visible Human Project consists of some 9000 digitized sections of the body. The animations and images in this tour use some of these sections to demonstrate the planes of section, and how the two-dimensional images provide a unique means of studying the three-dimensional anatomy of the human body."

Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
"The library contains (hopefully) all RNA structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and from the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) and DNA structures and proteins."
IMB Jena Biocomputing Group


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immunobiology - animations .
"a set of animations designed by Blink Studio Ltd to accompany Immunobiology The Immune System in Health and Disease, 5th edition by Charles A. Janeway and Paul Travers"

Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
Sections include: Beetles ; Lice ; Butterflies, Moths, and Caterpillars ; Plant Diseases and Damage ; Cicadas and Leafhoppers ; Plants ; Flies and Mosquitoes ; Ticks ; Grasshoppers and Crickets ; True Bugs.

Lifesign
Networked Moving Images for the Life Sciences
"..is a JISC [UK] funded project to develop, catalogue and evaluate the use of streaming media in learning and teaching in the broad life sciences."

MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery
"Come explore familiar and unexpected views of the microscopic world with these colorized images from electron microscopes at the University of Hawaii."
By Tina Carvalho, Biological Electron Microscope Facility, (BEMF), part of the Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Microbiology Video Library - (dead link)
"Particularly impressive are the wide variety of easily downloaded high quality images and short QuickTime movies. These may be particularly useful for staff to use for PowerPoint lectures and for student presentations ... a useful source of information for both staff and students." -Microbiology Today, August 2002
-University of Leicester

Microscopy and Imaging Resources on the WWW
Topics include Introduction to Light Microscopy ; Advanced Concepts ; Internet Resources ; Interesting & Educational ; Professional Societies.
- College of Pharmacy Experimental Pathology Services Core, University of Arizona

Missouri Botanical Garden

  • Photo Essays at the Missouri Botanical Garden
    "Travel with our botanists as they collect in different parts of the world, see some of the plants they collect, and learn more about the countries they collect in."
  • Preserving and Digitizing Plant Images - (dead link)
    Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access
    "The purpose of our project is to link plant images with their associated data in TROPICOS, the Missouri Botanical Garden's web database, and make the images and data available online at http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html. By doing this, we will create a repository for plant images to which other botanical organizations can contribute."

Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
"...one of the Web's largest collections of color photographs taken through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as 'photo-micro-graphs')"
- Florida State University

MyPACS Teaching Files
Teaching File Management System
"Join radiologists from 400 institutions in 75 countries who are using MyPACS to create their cases online. Users have contributed 3500 cases containing 14,000 images, and new cases are being added every day."
Free Registration required.

The Nanoworld Home Page
The Image Gallery contains a wide selection of subjects
Duncan Waddell, The Center for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland

Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery
"...designed to assist botanists, ecologists, and natural resource managers with the identification of plants. It should also prove useful to educators in the classroom as well as students who are required to learn plants as a part of their studies."

The Online Macromolecular Museum (OMM)
"...is a site for the display and study of macromolecules. Macromolecular structures, as discovered by crystallographic or NMR methods, are scientific objects in much the same sense as fossil bones or dried specimens: they can be archived, studied, and displayed in aesthetically pleasing, educational exhibits...The OMM's exhibits are interactive tutorials on individual molecules in which hypertextual explanations of important biochemical features are linked to illustrative renderings of the molecule at hand."

Pest and Disease Gallery
Plant Pathology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, UK

Photos of Parasites - (dead link)
Queensland University of Technology Parasitology Image List

Plant Image Gallery
 "...contains about 2.000 pictures of plants native to several parts of the world. Pictures of plants from Europe, Costa Rica and Galapagos Islands were taken during botanical field trips. Additionally, a considerable number of close-ups are among them obtained by use of a microscope. Pictures of plants native to other parts of the worlds were mainly made in botanical gardens."
Created and maintained by Thomas Schoepke, Institute of Pharmacy at Greifswald University

Plants-In-Motion
Time-lapse photography of plants growing and changing.
Movie Categories include: Germination ; Photomorphogenesis ; Tropisms ; Nastic Movements ; Circadian Responses ; General Growth ; Flowers ; Cellular Responses.
By Roger P. Hangarter, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University

Protist Image Data
"...provides pictures and short descriptions of selected protist genera, especially those genera whose species are frequently used as experimental organisms or are important in studies of organismal evolution. Our intent is to provide up-to-date online information on the morphology, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of these organisms."
Organelle Genome Megasequencing Project, Dept. Biochemistry, University of Montreal

Rare Books from the MBG Library
"This project will result in a large database of botanical and gardening illustrations and text available to scholars, gardeners, and book enthusiasts through this web site."
-Missouri Botanical Gardens

Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
The Department of Botany of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has created a database of the more than 3000 botanical illustrations.

Stanford Visible Female
"This is a site about the human female pelvis...from Lucys' paleo-anthropological origins (discovery 1974) to 3D computer models in medical education."

SWISS-3DIMAGE
"...an image database which strives to provide high quality pictures of biological macromolecules with known three-dimensional structure. The database contains mostly images of experimentally elucidated structures, but also provides views of well accepted theoretical protein models."

University of Florida - Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
7000 pages of information and resources.
Sections include: Plant Information & Images ; Meetings and Books ; Prohibited Plant Laws and Lists ; Online Books & Articles ; Plant Manuals, Field Guides and Textbooks ; Biological Control Insects.

University of Hawaii, Manoa - Biological Electron Microscope Facility, (BEMF), part of the Pacific Biomedical Research Center

University of Wisconsin, Madison - Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV)

  • Virus World - (dead link)
    Images and Animations Database
    Sections include: Virus Imaging ; Virus Structure Tutorials ; Other Tutorials

Vascular Plants Image Gallery
Bioinformatics Working Group, Texas A&M University

Virtual Cell
"...is a collection of still images, texts and movies covering the structure and functioning of a typical plant cell."
By Matej Lexa

Visible Human Project
"It is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals."
Includes an extensive collection of links to projects based upon the Visible Human data

Visible Human Server
"...a virtual anatomic construction kit on the web using the Visible Human dataset."
Features include: "Extract slices, curved surfaces, and slice animations from both datasets (male and female)" ; "Interactively navigate by slicing through the male dataset in real-time" ; "Construct 3D anatomical scenes using combinations of slices and 3D models of internal structures from the male dataset, and extract 3D animations" ; "Add voice comments to video sequences generated using the applets"
Peripheral Systems Lab (Prof. Hersch and his team), Computer Science Dept., Ecole Polytechnique FÈdÈrale de Lausanne

Visualizations of Viruses - (dead link)
Institute for Molecular Virology

A Web Atlas of Cellular Structures Using Light and Confocal Microscopy
"This web site displays a series of light and confocal micrographs illustrating a variety of subcellular structures and organelles. We hope to provide a useful educational resource for people interested in cytology who do not have access to advanced imaging technologies or cell biological expertise...We have employed a cultured epithelial cell line, CV1-monkey kidney cells, for these experiments and stained for such organelles as the Golgi apparatus, the endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus, mitochondria, and several cytoskeletal elements
By Sheela Konda, Steve Rogers, and Daniel E. Weber
Imaging Technology Group, University of Illinois






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