Research
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/butmoth/index.html
An excellent resource for entomologists, this Butterflies and Moths of the World website was created by Brian Pitkin and Paul Jenkins of the Natural History Museum in London (NHM). The site was designed "to compile a comprehensive interactive catalogue of all the published genus-group names of Lepidoptera from Linnaeus, 1758, up to the present, and to provide full-colour images of representatives of most included families." This online catalogue contains 31,147 entries and over 400 full-color images as well. Additionally, a bibliography is included that provides "6,155 references by 1,281 different authors or author combinations." Site visitors can conduct searches for a specific genus, type-species, bibliographical reference, or image. This website also links to other NHM Department of Entomology sites including Research Themes, Publications, and Databases. [NL]
Hosted by AVES.NET, this website about Freshwater Dinoflagellates was created by Victor W. Fazio III and Dr. Susan Carty of Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio). Two main attractions of this site are the Freshwater Dinoflagellate Image Archive, and the Recent Additions-Freshwater Dinoflagellate Images 2003 (from the 2003-04 winter field season). Individual Dinoflagellate image pages generally include a ventral view, dorsal view, or both, and the pages featuring species from Ohio include county distribution maps. Site visitors can email Dr. Carty for permission to use any of the images. The website also contains a List of Freshwater Dinoflagellates in Ohio, some of which link to the individual image pages. Additionally, the site offers a Review of Online Images of Freshwater Dinoflagellates including links to many other host sites, and a link to an online article by Dr. Susan Carty and Daniel E. Wujek entitled A New Species of Peridinium and New Records of Dinoflagellates and Silica-Scaled Chrysophytes from Belize. [NL]
http://www.informatics.jax.org/menus/homology_menu.shtml
Created by the Jackson Laboratory as part of Mouse Genome Informatics, this website features Mammalian Orthology and Comparative Maps. At this site, searches can be made in the area of Mammalian Orthology by species, gene symbol, name, or map position. Site visitors can also build comparative maps, retrieve an Oxford Grid to display a two-species orthology comparison, and view orthologies between mouse and human or mouse and rat at the whole genome level. The site links to Gene Family Information, MGI Mammalian Orthology Criteria, and MGI Database Reports as well. [NL]
http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm
Hosted by Raintree, the Tropical Plant Database is authored and maintained by Board Certified Naturopath, Ms. Leslie Taylor to provide accurate information about rainforest plants and to help promote rainforest conservation. Including over 300 pages of documentation on rainforest plants and very well-organized, the Tropical Plant Database lists plants by Common name, Botanical name, Ethnic uses, and Action/disorder. The Database File for each plant includes an illustration and information about family, genus, species, common names, plant description, and more. Visitors can link to great illustrations and photos as well as web resources for each plant including Medline Abstracts, W3 TROPICOS Database, Ethnobotany Database, and Phtyochem Database among others. Plant Database File pages include references as well. [NL]
http://www.ibra.org.uk/index.html
This website presents the International Bee Research Association (IBRA), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1949 working to provide researchers and beekeepers with information in the topic areas of bee species, pollination, diseases and pests, nectar and pollen sources, and more. The IBRA website provides information about the organization, about conferences and other events, and about the association's three journals : Bee World, Journal of Apicultural Research, and Apicultural Abstracts. The site also contains an extensive list of internet links organized under categories like Apitherapy, Research Sites & Universities, Beekeeping Groups and Organizations, and Information Resources and References Sites. [NL]
http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/bie/fossilmammal/
This website presents the Fossil Mammal Research Group whose "members are palaeontologists and archaeologists as well as palaeoenvironmental specialists in the School of Biological & Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK." Subjects of study by the Research group include mammalian fauna development over the past 30 million years, Plio-Pleistocene and Holocene climate change, and more. The website links to subpages for a list of Publications from 1998-2004, Major Projects going on around the world, Conferences, and relevant links. The site also provides a page presenting group members along with their research interests and email addresses. [NL]
http://stratcom.cals.wisc.edu/ceccr/tecc/research.htm
This website features research by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Technology Enhancing Cancer Communication (TECC) Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research. The "Center's overall goal is to understand how interactive new technologies work to improve cancer communication." TECC's "research projects focus on separating web ehealth systems into conceptual components, supplementing the systems with a human cancer mentor, and facilitating web-based communication between the patients/family members and the clinical team." The TECC Research website links to Center Projects, Pilot Studies, TECC Data, and Publications. Site visitors can also link to more information about TECC, information about Graduate and Post Graduate Study, and a Directory for Center Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students with email addresses. The Center invites visiting scientists, postdoctoral scientists, and health professionals in-training from a variety of disciplines to participate in the TECC research program. [NL]
