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American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)

AmphibiaWeb - (dead link)
An Information System for Amphibian Conservation Biology
"AmphibiaWeb is an online resource for people concerned with the declining amphibian problem. By providing easy access to data, we hope to accelerate broad-scale understanding of the causes of amphibian declines...AmphibiaWeb currently has 137 species accounts from species around the world. The accounts contain species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, and literature references. Species names are currently linked to 296 amphibian photos of 133 species. We have range maps for 320 species. Our reference list contains 543 literature references."
Dr. David Wake, Curator of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley

Animal Genome Size Database
"...a comprehensive catalogue of animal genome size data.  Haploid genome sizes (C-values) are currently available for approximately 2,100 species and subspecies of vertebrates and 800 species of

Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) - (dead link)

  • Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) - (dead link)
    "is a database of the genes and phenes* that have been documented in a wide range of animal species other than those for which databases already exist (human, rat and mouse). It is modelled on, and is complementary to, McKusick's Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM)."
    Compiled by F.W. Nicholas, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney

Bishop Museum Native Hawaiian Terrestrial & Freshwater Mollusk Checklist Database

California Wildlife Exposure Factor and Toxicity Database (Cal/Ecotox)
"...is a compilation of exposure factors (i.e., ecological and physiological data) and toxicity data for a number of California mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles.  The database has been created by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, in collaboration with the University of California at Davis, to provide an information resource for risk assessors conducting ecological risk assessments in California."

CBS Databases - (dead link)
Includes the following: Filamentous fungi database - (dead link), containing about 28,000 strains; Yeasts database - (dead link), with nearly 6,000 strains total; Bacteria database - (dead link), 8,000 strains;  Aphyllophorales database - (dead link), a taxonomical and nomenclatural database of more than 29,000 names; and Fusarium database - (dead link), with over 1,500 names; and the Phabagen databases - (dead link)
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures

Database of Research Institutions in Tropical Ecology

Directory of Research Systematic Collections (DRSC) - (dead link)
"...is a directory of the natural history research collections. This directory is developed and maintained through a partnership between the Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) and the U.S.G.S. Biological Resources Division (BRD) and was developed in part to support the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) and the Electronic Natural History Museum Initiative of the BRD ... The DRSC Database currently contains information submitted by 525 natural history research collections."

DUCKDATA - (dead link) A Bibliographic Data Base of North American Waterfowl (Anatidae) and their Wetland Habitats.

Encyclopaedia Taxonomica
Zooplankton Database
"It is a fully webbased taxonomic information system, set up for the dutch
institute CIW (commission for integrated water management). Zooplankton is available since 2001; worked out for both freshwater and marine systems, including cladocera; copepoda, rotatoria and ciliata. The database can be updated online, and new taxa will be validated by taxonomic experts."

Entomology Index of Internet Resources
 A Directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet
By John VanDyk, Iowa State University

The eSkeletons Project
 "The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, chimpanzee, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database...This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. This includes: high-quality images of bones - labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features - high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (Quicktime) and interactive virtual reality (VRML) format."
Created at the University of Texas at Austin

EURASLIC Directory of European Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres - (dead link)
"...is a database product developed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) on behalf of EURASLIC, for the benefit of the Ocean research community."

Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)
The Netherlands

  • World Biodiversity Database (WBD)
    "...is a continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make this important biological information worldwide accessible. Access to this online information system is free of charge for noncommercial use: scientific and educational purposes."
  • World Taxonomist Database (WTD)
    Online taxonomists directory service.
  • UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisims - (dead link)
    "The register is basically only a list of species names but it is tried to add at least some additional information, including author names, vernacular names, information on geographical and bathymetrical distribution and NODC numerical codes. Synonyms are added but only if they are still in use or were used in recent times."

Gemini Detective
"A collaborative effort of the laboratories of Dr. Judith Brown (University of Arizona) and Dr. Stephen D. Wyatt (Washington State University), this Website serves as a hub of information on whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses in the genus _Begomoviridae_. Resources provided at the site include _Begomovirus_ descriptive information (general information; worldwide distribution; a hyperlinked list of Begomovirus; and a searchable database of begomovirus isolates by geographic location, virus/ isolate name, symptom, and host) and Core Coat Protein Sequence Database (including PCR sequence technical information and Mini-Blast search). In addition to text, several small color images provide illustrations of the effect (symptoms) of geminivirus-related disease on hosts. [LXP]"
From The Scout Report for Science & Engineering [04/12/00], Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

GooseRef Bibliography System
"...an online bibliographic search system, devoted entirely to the primary scientific literature concerning geese. Currently consisting of ca. 2200 references (mostly papers and thesis titles), GooseRef was the very first online bibliography system."

IDALIC - IAMSLIC International Directory of Aquatic Libraries and Information Centers
"...represents a network of cooperating libraries, information centers and other information service organizations that are willing to provide information services, not only to other cooperating members, but to any aquatic researcher. IDALIC provides information on who to contact, collections & holdings, clientele, services, ILL and User policy, electronic access, etc...The current database reflects the continuing expansion of IAM

Index to Organism Names - (dead link)
"The TRITON name index, the Index to Organism Names is offered as an aid to the general bioscience community and gives basic nomenclatural and hierarchy information, plus ZR volume occurrence counts (reflecting use in the literature) for animal names; and links to other organisations' data for non-animal names. It can be used to identify the taxonomic group to which a named organism belongs and to link to further information from ZR or other collaborating organisation."

National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Smithsonian Institution

  • Department of Entomology
    • NMNH Entomology Database Library - (dead link)
      • Ant Database - (dead link)
        "The Smithsonian's ant collection contains more than 500,000 specimens. Of these, around 152,000 are mounted on points and identified to species. These pinned specimens, representing 4580 valid named species and subspecies of ants, are listed in this database. Also listed are 1,555 ant type specimens (holotypes or paratypes), some of which represent unavailable names. You may search this database at the species level or above..."
        Maintained by Ted Schultz

Search in the Biology Web Servers - (dead link)
"...This server searches in all the pages referenced by the Pasteur Institute Web server - (dead link) in its biology "pointers" pages, "Molecular Biology on the Web" - (dead link).
In French or English

The Subterranean Amphipod Database - (dead link)
"The goal of this site is to add data stepwise to all the listed subterranean families. The individual databases differ per family, depending on the information available. They range from simple species lists to detailed specimen databases, which, for example, include biogeographic data and bibliographies."
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University

TRITON Project - (dead link)
Taxonomy Resource & Index To Organism Names
"...is a system under development by BIOSIS UK - (dead link) as a mechanism for making data related to names of both fossil and recent organisms, and in particular animal nomenclatural data from the Zoological Record (ZR), available on the www. TRITON accesses a database of over a million animal names, at all taxonomic ranks, reported from the scientific literature of the last 18 years, plus some 400,000 names of other non-animal organisms provided by collaborating organisations."

University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

  • Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Data Access - (dead link)
    "This site provides access to data and images in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Collections."

University of Minnesota Department of Entomology

  • Insect Collection
    Sections include: Collection Info ; People ; Projects ; Systematic Databases ; Visits & Tours ; Links.

WAIS Databases in Zoology - (dead link)

Wisconsin Herpetological Atlas Project (Herp Atlas)
"Over 800 endangered and threatened species records have been received, and over 450 new county records have been confirmed."
Compiled by Gary Casper

World Conservation Monitoring Centre Conservation Databases - (dead link)
"Data, maps and statistics on the forests, coasts, species, protected areas, national biodiversity and WCMC bibliographic database."

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