Start Here:

For any organismal exploration try the Berkeley “ucmp” server. This fantastic site is a gateway to hundreds of web pages devoted to every type of critter:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html .

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

http://www.biosis.org/free_resources/resource_guide.html

        http://www.selkirk.bc.ca/courses/biology/pron.htm

If all else fails, try one or more of the search engines listed at the bottom of the page.

  http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/

 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

Kingdom Bacteria

Cyanosite offers cyanobacteria researchers a small slice of heaven:

http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/

UCMP's introduction to cyanobacteria is available at:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html

Check out the latest word on the mysterious Archaeans at

        http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html

Take a tour of the Microbe Zoo at the University of Michigan. Be sure to visit Dirtland:

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/zdmain.html

Search the Microbial Underground for anything microbial and medical:

http://www.medschool.lsumc.edu/Micr/mirror/public_html/index.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/apicomplexa.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/dinoflagellata.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/foram/foramintro.html

http://www.who.int/topics/tropical_disease_research/en/

http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/otherprodbs.html

http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/SPONGE.HTM

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/poriferamm.html

Way too much information about cnidarians at:

http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/biochem/steele/default.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ortogero/jellyfish.html

Flatworms, and Rotifers

The Berkeley server has a good introduction to flatworms, with several interesting links:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/platyhelminthes/platyhelminthes.html

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/aschelminthes/aschelminthes.html

http://www.who.int/health-topics/idindex.htm

Molluscs

http://www.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/grp_moll.htm

Start by crawling to:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/annelida/annelida.html

http://www.vermiculture.com

http://www.manualdelombricultura.com/en

http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/SS/leeches_index.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/SS/leechlove.html

Visit the home page of the Society of Nematologists at:

http://www.nematologists.org/

Stay hip with the latest revisions to nematodes at UCMP:

        http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/ecdysozoa/nematoda.html

There are hundreds of arthropods waiting quietly in obscure corners of the web, ready to pounce on the unwary undergraduate and grab your attention. Where to start? The UCMP server is great for all groups except crustaceans:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/arthropoda.html

http://www.ufsia.ac.be/Arachnology/Arachnology.html

Follow the silken strands to Online University's Arachnology Resources page,  lots of useful links:

        http://www.onlineuniversity.net/biology/arachnology-resources/

http://www.vims.edu/tcs/

http://www.earthlife.net/insects/

salticidae.org

http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/index.php

http://www.lymenet.org

http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/cocktoc.htm

http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm

http://butterflywebsite.com/

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mariposa/homepage.html

Echinoderms

As always, a good place to start is:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/echinodermata.html

http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/echinoderm/echilink.htm

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/contents.html

Chordates
 

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/chordata/terrestrial_vertebrates.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/tetraintro.html

http://www.audubon.org/

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/activity/birding.htm

http://www.birdsforever.com/index.html

And don't forget the dinosaurs:

        Kingdom Fungi

You'll find a well-referenced guide to the latest discoveries about these curious creatures at the Tree of Life:
 

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/fungi/fungi.html

Mycology at LSU has a wealth of links to the Kingdom Fungi:
 

http://lsb380.plbio.lsu.edu/Home.html

Check out the stunning fungal photography at Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi
 

http://lsb380.plbio.lsu.edu/ima/index.html

Visionary Mushrooms - one "shroom" makes you larger, and one "shroom" makes you small...
 

http://www.stainblue.com/

 

To eat or not to eat - sort out the edible fungi from their toxic kin at:
 

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/mushrooms/mushroom/index.htm

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Kingdom Plantae
 
 

 

For an exhaustive list of what's growing in cyberspace, check out the Internet Directory for Botany at:
 

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/JTHome/IDB/IDB/

Everything you learned about plant evolution is wrong! Check out the latest news from the Deep Green plant phylogeny project, the leafy equivalent of the Human Genome Project, as they rewrite the botany texts:
 

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/DeepGreen/DeepGreen.html

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                        Primitive Plants

Bryophyte taxonomy, images, and more at:
 

http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/

Get info about bryophytes from the Missouri Botanical Garden at:
 

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/tropicos/most/

Lie down among the ferns at the American Fern Society:
 

http://amerfernsoc.org

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Basic info on ferns and fern allies, complete with images, courtesy of Texas A&M:
 

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/fsb/fsbfern1.htm

Look for ferns on the "tree of life" at
 

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/green_plants/embryophytes/filicopsida/filicopsida.html

Learn about the role of ferns in forest ecology at:
 

http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/reports/publications/Mixedwood/ferns/intro.htm

Find photos and more of ferns and fern allies at:
 

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/nfpfamilies.htm

Good basic info on non-flowering plants, with great pictures at:
 

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/equiset.htm

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Seed Plants - Gymnosperms

The Gymnosperm Database Home Page offers a wealth of information on individual species of gymnosperms, including copious links, at:
 

http://www.conifers.org/

One stop shopping for info on cycads, courtesy of Sidney's Royal Botanical Gardens:

 
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/index.html

The Virtual Encyclopedia of cycads is - well - virtually encyclopedic!

 
http://www.plantapalm.com/vce/vce_index.htm

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Seed Plants - Angiosperms
 

Hey, don't badmouth those plants, some of those little fellows can really grow on you. Don't believe me? Check out the Parasitic Plant Connection:
 

http://www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/

Find out what plants are good for at Plants for a Future. The site includes a database of over 7,000 plants that are good to eat or useful in other ways:
 

http://www.pfaf.org/

You'll find an entire course of plant systematics served up still warm and online, courtesy of the University of Maryland:
 

http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/PBIO/pb250/index.html

Oooh, pretty pictures of angiosperms are waiting at

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~fortney/vg/vg.html

Get the scoop on how to grow and use herbs, including lots of herbal links, at:
 

http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/culiherb.html

Herbs are good for the body and the mind - stay naturally healthy, courtesy of the Herbal Information Center:
 

http://www.healthy.net/clinic/therapy/herbal/herbic/index.html

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Find out at Garden Web, the gateway to gardening online:
 

http://gardenweb.com/

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To search for more information on organisms, try one of the following sites or search engines. Try both common and scientific names in your search.

 

 

http://www.dogpile.com/

http://www.google.com

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 

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