Links

Participating Institutions

• St Francis College

• Medgar Evers College

• Black Rock Forest Consortium

Other UMEB websites

• National Science Foundation (NSF) UMEB program

• Texas A&M UMEB Webpage

• University of New Mexico

• Northern Arizona University

• James Madison University (JMU)

Other Natural History Museums Education Resources

• The National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
  

• The Natural History Museum, London, UK.

• Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

• Field Museum, Chicago

• Missouri Botanic Museum
  

• Australian Museum
  

• Paris Natural History Museum
  

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK)
  

• Berlin Botanic Garden
  

General Taxonomy Links For Use in Classrooms

General taxonomy


• NCBI
• The Tree of Life Project
• BIOSIS (Offers Links to all kind of taxonomy database by taxonomic names)
• ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System

• Mammalogy
  

  • Mammals of the World Online

• Entomology
  

  • Entomology databases links
  • AMNH Invertebrate Zoology Type Specimens Database

• Drosophilae
  

  • International Drosophila Database
  • FlyBase or Drosophila Resource Network
  • Flybase anatomy drawings
  • Berkeley Drosophila Database Project

• Herpetology
  

• Amphibians:

  • AMNH Amphibian database

• Reptiles:

  • The EMB Reptile Database

  Ichthyology
  

  • FishBase
  • University of Texas Ichthyology Collection
  • Natural History of Vertebrates Lab Emporia State University

Genome Links for use in classrooms

• NCBI Complete Microbial Genomes

• TIGR Comprehensive Microbial Resource

• PIR Complete Genomes

• MAGPIE

• PEDANT

• GOLD[TM]: Genomes OnLine Database

• MBGD - Comparative Microbial Genome Database

• COG - Clusters of Orthologous Groups

• The Phylogeny Wing

• The Ribosomal Database Project (for rRNA derived phylogenetic trees)

Glossaries, Biological and Medical terms

• Biosis, This index to selected quality Internet resources offers access to an immense range of zoological information. Choose to browse by subject or by animal name/group. Type in your own search terms; or use one of the selected short-cuts
  

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server Resources

• Genome Glossary from the Human Genome Project
  

• Genomics Glossary from CHI
  

• Life Science Dictionary from BioTech
  

• Glossary of Genetic Terms from NIH
  

• Glossary from CancerPage.com
  

• Bioremediation Glossary from NABIR
  

• Biology Resources from ORNL
  

• Multilingual Medical Terms