Chapter 1 Web Links

The Tree of Life Project

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

The current thinking on the evolution of organisms and cells.

Cell Culture Methods

http://www.protocol-online.org/prot/Cell_Biology/Cell_Culture/

Links to many techniques for animal cell culture.

Microscopy-UK and Micscape Magazine Site Home Page

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/

Microscopy on the Web, with links to illustrated explanations of the many kinds of microscopes, and an online magazine.

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.

http://www.denniskunkel.com/ and

Molecular Probes Gallery

http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/support/Research-Tools/Image-Gallery/Image-Exhibit.13.html/

Two sites of strikingly beautiful photographs, the first mostly of scanning electron micrographs and the second of organelles stained with fluorescent probes.

Cells Alive!

http://www.cellsalive.com/

A compendium of movies and images of living cells.

Nanoworld Image Gallery, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland

http://www.xtalent.com.au/gallery/index.php?cat=3

An extensive image gallery of transmission and scanning electron micrographs of cells.

Websites devoted to model organisms for studying cells:

dictyBase: An Online Informatics Resource for Dictyostelium

http://dictybase.org

The slime mold, Dictyostelium.

The WWW Virtual Library: Drosophila

http://ceolas.org/VL/fly/

The fruit fly, Drosophila.

Xenbase: A Xenopus Web Resource

http://www.xenbase.org/

The frog, Xenopus.

ZFIN: The Zebrafish Information Network

https://zfin.org

The zebrafish.

TAIR: The Arabdopsis Information Resource

http://www.arabidopsis.org

The mustard plant, Arabidopsis.

Yeast (Budding, Fission, and Candida)

https://www.yeastgenome.org

The yeast, Saccharomyces.