Links

People

Dr. Edmund Brodie III

Dr. Brodie is a colleague of Dr. Janzen and a frequent collaborator.


Places

ISU ADVANCE

This web site contains the contents of an important program initiated by a grant to ISU from the National Science Foundation to advance women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Janzen participates actively in these efforts both on and off campus.

EvoNet: A worldwide network for evolutionary biology

EvoNet contains the web and email addresses of many of the people, labs, and departments working in evolutionary biology and related fields. In addition, it contains pointers to many other useful resources in evolutionary biology, such as software, journals, societies, and other web sites.

Centre for the Study of Evolution

This site strives to become THE web link providing a primary source of general knowledge and information about evolutionary biology. Great idea!

A "White Paper" on Evolutionary Biology

Describes the current state of evolutionary biology, and discusses its contributions to society. Written by some of the biggest names in the field.


Tools for Studying Evolutionary Biology

GenBank

GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, a source where you can look up a particular sequence of DNA from all publicly available DNA sequences. The NCBI taxonomy homepage contains links to a taxonomy browser to help find the sequences you need.

TreeBASE

A database of phylogenetic knowledge (unfortunately, currently only green plants).

PhyCom

News (articles, programs, updates, etc.) for the phylogenetic community, as well as a forum for questions and discussion, links to labs, programs, etc., and eventually downloads of scripts and how-tos (and more).

Quantitative Genetics Resources

An electronic supplement to a two-volume text on quantitative genetics by Lynch and Walsh. Contains an index of web pages concerning quantitative genetics.

Evolutionary Genetics References

An EndNote database of >12,000 references.


Miscellaneous

Xs and Os: The Tic-Tac-Toe of Sex Determination

A jigsaw format activity to explore the sex determination mechanisms of seven organisms.

A Combined Index to Herpetology Collections

Nearly 30 top museums in the world have contributed database information on their collections of amphibians and reptiles.

The EMBL Reptile Database

This is a herpetology web page with photos of thousands of reptiles and good taxonomic information.

The Global Turtle Database

This is an outstanding, state-of-the-art web page that is a phenomenal source of data on turtles of the world, particularly detailed locality information.

1999 Powdermill Freshwater Turtle and Tortoise Conference

A reference to an important recent meeting of many top turtle biologists in the world. Related to the conference is the following web page on the Turtle Crisis, regarding devastating, continuing losses of up to 50% of turtle species worldwide.

Iowa Environmental Mesonet

Current and historical data on soil temperature, moisture and atmospheric conditions from 11,000 instruments at >300 sites around Iowa.

Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies to 1950

Includes web links and full-text versions of many important writings of this era.

The Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin

Includes the complete text of Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species.

The Alfred Russel Wallace Page

Includes numerous full-text versions of the writings of one of history's most prominent naturalists.


Saint Cecilia

October 11 Journal

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October 19 Journal

October 21 Journal

November 1 Journal