Biology

"Within articles describing genetic studies, it is often difficult for readers to determine whether the authors are referring to a gene or its corresponding protein. This can be problematic when readers are trying to understand the details of complex molecular systems and the methodology used by the authors to probe those systems. To reduce this potential source of confusion for both peer reviewers and the larger audience of your published article, it is important to use accepted formatting conventions for gene and protein symbols in a consistent manner throughout your manuscript."

Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections.

This National Science Foundation project offers a one-stop shop for information related to the gastropod genus Conus. This taxonomic catalog contains entries for more than 3,000 species published between 1758 and 2007. The main page lists the importance of studying various Conus species due to their biodiversity, distribution, abundance, ecology, revisionary synthesis, practical applications, and evolutionary diversification.

A project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The EOL synthesizes biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy.

Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. A partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America; other organizations; and taxonomic specialists. ITIS is also a partner of Species 2000 and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The ITIS and Species 2000 Catalogue of Life (CoL) partnership provides the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

JSTOR Plant Science provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials. The materials in JSTOR Plant Science are built in collaboration with dozens of herbaria, libraries, archives, museums, universities, and other research institutions.

The Entrez Taxonomy database displays the species names (and higher-level classification) of all of the organisms that are represented in the Entrez sequence databases (or any of the other Entrez databases that are indexed by taxonomy).