Online Resources in Biology (by type)

• Anatomy Atlases
  List of atlases in anatomy and histology
• Gray's Anatomy (Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body)
  The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings from the classic 1918 publication.
• Innerbody Anatomy Explorer
  Free website that allows you to explore 12 major anatomy systems with interactive, 3D anatomy models.
• Muscle Atlas
  Illustrations of all human muscles with information on their origin, insertion, action, innervation, and arterial supply
• Wormatlas
  Database of the behavioral and structural anatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans (transparent roundworm)

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• Audubon's Birds of America
  The University of Pittsburgh digitized rare complete set of John James Audubon’s Birds of America accompanied by his Ornithological Biography.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Digitized journals and books in biodiversity spanning 200 years from the collections of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions.
• Botanicus.org: database of historic botanical literature
  Database of digitized books and journals from the 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
• Charles Darwin's Library
  Digital collection of books owned by Charles Darwin. Also provides full transcriptions of his annotations and marks.
• Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
  Contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, a Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and supplementary works such as specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works, etc. Texts are searchable.

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• AmphibiaWeb
  Provides information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy.
• Animal Diversity Web
  Database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology. Contains species accounts about individual animal species and descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families.
• Catalogue of Life
  Taxonomic data for all known species of organisms on Earth
• Crustacea.net
  Information on crustaceans: description, habitat, interactive keys
• Encyclopedia of Life
  Provides biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being.
• Flora of North America
  Information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico
• Identification Keys for Endangered Species (Environment Canada)
  Visual identification keys for endangered species such as Birds, Crocodilians, Turtles and Tortoises, Butterflies, Sturgeons and Paddlefish, Tropical Wood.
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  Find taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Database
  Provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on plants and animals that are extinct, at risk of extinction, or near threatened.
• List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)
   
• NatureServe
  Provides taxonomic, habitat, distribution, ecological, conservation data and references to animals and plants in the Americas.
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
  Contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the NCBI genetic databases.
• Tree of Life Web Project
  Collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Contains pictures, text, and other information for species living or extinct and the hierarchy of life, phylogeny and evolution.
• uBio: Catalog of known names of all living organisms
  Excellent resource containing classification information for all known names of all living (and once-living) organisms.
• WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
  List of names of all marine species globally

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• Chemistry of Amino Acids
  Dictionary on the structure and chemistry of amino acids
• Encyclopedia of Life
  Provides biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being.
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
  This is a revised and updated edition of one of the most authoritative and comprehensive sources on the world's animals. This edition covers all types of animals in geographic areas around the world. Online access restricted to Concordia users.
• Proteopedia - 3D Encyclopedia of proteins
  Encyclopedia on the structure and function of proteins, RNA, DNA, and other macromolecules, and their assemblies and interactions with small molecules.

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• Biological Procedures Online
  Open access journal of research methods in the medical and biological sciences. Papers feature step-by-step protocols.
• JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments - Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video
  Peer reviewed, online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.
• Protocol Online
  Database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields. Contains protocols contributed by worldwide researchers as well as links to protocols on the Web from research labs, biotech companies, and personal Web sites.
• Protocols - OpenWetWare
  Wiki where protocols are submitted by the general scientific community.
• VADLO: Protocols search engine
  Search engine that allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. The protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc.

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• Anatomy Video and Imagery Diversity Project
  AVID is a database of freely available original images and videos that properly showcase the range of human diversity and that are of sufficient detail and quality to support excellent anatomical teaching across multiple disciplines and levels of learner expertise.
• Biology Animation Library
  Animated tutorials about certain genetic concepts such as cloning.
• Clarafi
  Clarafi is a community of scientists, graphics professionals, students and educators interested in scientific visualization.
• Coral Kingdom
  
• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
  Includes images of fish, shellfish, marine mammals, fish hatcheries, dams, freshwater species, (etc.) from the 18th - 20th century.
• John James Audubon's Birds of America
  Online version of John James Audubon's Birds of America. It is from the 1840 edition of Audubon's complete seven volume text, and presents Audubon's images and original text descriptions. Bird species can be found listed alphabetically, or categorized by family.
• JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments - Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video
  Peer reviewed, online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.
• National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library
  
• Plant Digital Archive and Reference Collection Home
  Images from hundreds of species of plants from all over the world. The images are digitized micrographs of parts of plants that were sectioned, stained, and permanently mounted to a glass slide.
• ScienceHack: Science Videos Search Engine
  Search engine for science videos such as science experiments, science projects, science movies and science news.
• Tree Encyclopedia
  Over 3,500 pictures of different types of trees
• Western Soundscape Archive
  Audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the Western United States and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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