Links

General Biology

  • Tree of life: Overview of the diversity of life
  • The Living Planet: Campaign info of the WWF
  • British Marine Life: Info and pictures of the fauna of Britain
  • Animal biodiversity web
  • Fambof: List of websites on Biology in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Nomenclator Zoologicus: A special site on zoological nomenclature
  • Species 2000: An online species databank
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    Vertebrate Anatomy and Evolution

  • Ornithology on the internet: Some interesting links to ornithology
  • Laboratory exercises for vets
  • Walking with dinosaurs: info on the making of Walking with Dinosaurs, by the BBC
  • Skulls: a commercial enterprise which sells replica's of all kind of vertebrate skulls
  • Virtual Library for Developmental Biology
  • Human Anatomy
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    Primates

  • Duke University Primate Center: lots of info and images of primates
  • Primate gallery: excellent site for pictures
  • Primate Info Net: extensive information site
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    Histology

  • Veterinary Anatomy: Pictures and information on different tissues in domestic animals
  • Mammalian Histology course: course given by Dr. R.C. Wagner, lots of pics
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    Fishes

  • Overview of the Pisces: names in different language, distribution maps, systematics, ...
  • FishGeeks: Your Aquarium and Tropical fish resource
  • Planet Catfish: Some stuff on aquarium fishes, especially Siluriformes
  • Aquaria Central: Lots of fish pictures (especially tropical aquarium fish)
  • Fish Base: most extensive reference work on taxonomy, ecology, distribution, ... of fishes
  • Fish base of larval fish: the same as Fish Base, but of larval fish
  • Neodat II Project: database on neotropical fish
  • Fish pics: a whole set of nice pictures in fishes by Johnny Jensen
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    Software

  • Rhino 3D: 3D drawing program
  • Amira: 3D reconstructing and rendering program
  • Software for phylogeny
  • Extensive set of phylogeny software: mostly Mac
  • Another set of phylogeny programs: including NONA and Winclada
  • Surfdriver: software for graphical 3 dimensional reconstructions
  • 3D Studio Max: 3D graphical animation program
  • Morphometrics software: a whole set of freeware morphometric software
  • Morphometrics: general morphometrics and morphometrics forum
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    Research Institutes, Labs and Societies

    Natural History Musea

  • Africa museum: Belgian museum on African culture and biodiversity (Tervuren)
  • American Museum of Natural History: New York museum on American culture and global biodiversity
  • Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris museum
  • Museum of Paleontology: museum at University of California, Berkeley
  • British Museum of Natural History: London museum
  • Naturalis Museum Leiden: natural history museum in Leiden, the Netherlands
  • New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
  • National Museum of Natural History: Smithsonian natural history museum in Washington DC
  • Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Belgian natural history museum in Brussels, famous for its Iguanodon skeletons
  • Museum voor Dierkunde: zoological museum at Ghent University
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    Other Labs

  • Laboratory of Aquaculture and Artemia Reference Center: lab of Prof. Sorgeloos (Ghent University)
  • Vertebrate Morphology and Developmental Biology: lab of Prof. Huysseune (Ghent University)
  • Marine Biology lab: lab of Prof. Vincx (Ghent University)
  • Laboratory for Functional Morphology: lab of Prof. Aerts (Antwerp University)
  • Ichthyological Department AMNH: lab of Prof. Stiassny (American Museum of Natural History, New York)
  • Nematology Unit: lab of Prof. Borgonie (Ghent University)
  • Nematology course: reference page to the Postgraduate International Nematology Course (Ghent University)
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    Scientific Societies

  • Académie des Sciences
  • American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
  • International Society of Vertebrate Morphology
  • Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Dierkunde
  • Neotropical Ichthyological Association
  • Société Française d'Ichthyologie
  • Biologische Kring Dodonaea
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    Search sites and dictionaries

  • Encyclopedia Brittanica: extensive encyclopedia
  • The American Heritage Encyclopedia
  • RUSH: medical encyclopedia
  • Medline Plus: search site on human health
  • Fast Health: extensive medical dictionary
  • Virtual Library Pharmacy: search site on pharmaceutical products
  • Language dictionaries: all kind of languages, on-line search
  • Van Dale woordenboek: Dutch dictionary
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    Other Stuff

  • World Health Organization
  • MPEG animations: all kinds of funny animations
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    Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates Lab Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates