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About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
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Page Lab Glasgow site relauched as Page Lab web site. Welcome to the Page lab web site! Our research interests include host-parasite cospeciation, phylogenetic inference, supertrees, genome evolution, RNA secondary structure and evolution, and louse phylogeny. Use the tabs above to browse...Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org
A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management.
http://www.bionet-intl.org
The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html
Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
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Systematic Botany the Jornal of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT HEAD> ...A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/
A project examining the phylogenetic tree of life and all of its features, with information and pictures for every class and an interactive, dynamic hierarchy.
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Classification Lab To gain a working knowledge and better understanding of the methods and taxonomic and systematic basis for the classification of organisms. To observe a number of different organisms from different domains, kingdoms, phyla, and classes, and to compare and contrast...A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
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Glossary A specimen designated from the type series that is the opposite sex of the holotype. Available name A name that is correctly proposed according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. An available name is not necessarily the valid name....Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html
An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
http://www.bechly.de/glossary.htm
A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.
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TreeBASE E is a relational database of phylogenetic information hosted by the University at Buffalo. In previous years the database has been hosted by Harvard University Herbaria, Leiden University EEW, and the University of California, Davis. TreeBASE stores phylogenetic trees and...Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. We are a partnership of U.S Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America other organizations; and taxonomic specialists. ITIS is also a...Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journals.
http://www.biocollections.org/
An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
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Systema Naturae 2000 This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them....A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
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uBio Home Page Bio is an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative catalog of known names of all living (and once-living) organisms. The Taxonomic Name Server (TNS) catalogs names and classifications...A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
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DELTA DEscription Language for TAxonomy It has been adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) as a standard for data exchange. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems. Overview of...National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.
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NSF PEET Project Homepage F in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums, seeks to enhance and stimulate taxonomic research and help prepare future generations of experts. NSF announces a special competition, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in...A Linnaean taxonomy arranged in hyperlinked evolutionary trees. One can navigate through the hierarchy vertically, or follow a lineage horizontally at a particular level of the hierarchy.
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Biognomen Linnaean taxonomy arranged to show the evolutionary relationships among taxa. The evolutionary trees are mapped. Just click on the name of the group you want to see more detail on. Names in green are ancestor or descendant taxa. Clicking on...A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
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Tree of Life Web Project Home L scientific contributors read more about this picture Learn about Thysanoteuthis rhombus (the diamondback squid) image info T. rhombus is a large, muscular squid (ca. 100 cm ML max found throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world's oceans read...