Biology

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Subject Directories

• Access Excellence Resource Center > Microbiology Websites
• Best Information on the Net > Biological Reference Works
• Biology Web Site References
• DMOZ Open Directory Project > Microbiology
• Internet Public Library > Life Sciences
• Internet Public Library > Microbiology
• Librarians' Internet Index > Environment Topics - includes biology
• Microbiology & Virology: Directory of Online Resources

Internet Sites

• American Museum of Natural History - search the largest collection of fossils in the world.
• Human Genome Project Information:   Glossary  and Science Behind the HGP
• Michigan eLibrary > Environment
• Museum of Bacteria
• NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life - conservation information on plants, animals, and ecological communities in the U.S. and Canada.
• Online Biology Tutorials
• Public Library of Sciences - See links to full text open access journals in box on right of page.
• Understanding Evolution
• Yahoo > Dissections 

Microbiology

• Biology Web Site References for Students and Teachers > Microbiology
• Environmental Protection Agency > EPA Microbiology Home Page
• Microbes.info > Microbiology Information Portal
• ScienceDaily > Microbiology News

Plants and Animals

• Animal Diversity Web - animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology
• EE-Link:Endangered Species
• Mammal Species of the World - from the Smithsonian
• Michigan eLibrary > Michigan Animals
• The New Reptile Database
• Plants Database - by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service 
• Plants for a Future - search by name, use, habitat
• Structure and Function of Organisms
• Tree of Life Web Project - Diversity of organisms, evolutionary history, and characteristics

Textbook Sites

• Environmental Science  - Brooks/Cole for BIO 1500
• Integrated Principles of Zoology - McGraw-Hill for BIO 1540
• Life on Earth - Prentice Hall for BIO 1511
• Life: the Science of Biology - Freeman for BIO 1530
• Microbiology: an Introduction - Pearson/Addison Wesley Longman for BIO 1570

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• General Science Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Science Direct (Elsevier)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Beacham, Walton, Frank V. Castronova, and Suzanne Sessine, Eds. Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Blachford, Stacey L., Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. Detroit: Gale, 2002.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Robinson, Richard, Ed. Biology. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
• Online Journals of the Society for General Microbiology

• Selected Reference Books
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London : Nature Publishing Group, 2002.
         HL, OR  Reference  QH 302.5 .E54
  • Encyclopedia of Virology. London : Academic Press, 1999.
         HL, OR  RO  Reference  QR 358.E53
  • Environmental Encyclopedia.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1994-
         AH, OR Reference  GE 10 .E57
  • Holt, John G. Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology.   Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1994.
         AH, HL, OR, RO, SF  Reference  QR 81 .A5

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • QH 301-705  Biology
  • QH 426-470  Genetics
  • QL  Zoology
  • QR  Microbiology

See also: Sciences | Anatomy

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