13 January 05

Phylogenetic Rambles

At my meeting in Baltimore I learned about a wonderful online encyclopedia, aimed largely at college students, about animal diversity. This is the Animal Diversity Web, which was developed by the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan. The species accounts, of which there are several thousand at the site, are written by students, and the descriptions of higher-level taxa are written by professional biologists.

Here is the species account of one of our favorite critters, the turkey vulture.

Posted by at 09:18 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. Love the Michigan Website!
    My favorite bio-browse site is the Phylogeny Web at UC Berkeley
    http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html

    As it takes you through each taxon, down through their levels, you can also click at the bottom of the page to explore: fossil remains, morphology, relation to the ecology, and further systematics/cladistics on the entity. You can also hop to view life at other time periods.

    (and yes, a similar exhibit for the geology fans:
    http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html
    )

    — Anita    14. January 2005, 07:04    Link
  2. Oh goodness. What a treat! Thanks so much for sharing the link . . .

    — Siona    14. January 2005, 08:11    Link

  3. Thanks for the link! It goes well next to the PLANTS database for flora, which is already one of my regular haunts.



    — Jarrett    15. January 2005, 09:25    Link

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