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Developmental Biology

Title: Atlas of Developmental Abnormalities

URL: www.ifts-atlas.org/ifts/index.html

This searchable atlas offers numerous pictures of laboratory animals with developmental abnormalities at various stages of development. The animals pictured are rats, rabbits and mice.

Title: Virtual Library-Developmental Biology

URL: http://www.sdbonline.org/Other/VL_DB.html

This portion of the Society for Developmental Biology website contains an extensive virtual library, with links to various subjects including early development, morphogenesis, cell lineage and patterns, and various organisms. Each link leads to listings of websites for various labs, each including research and techniques regarding a specific topic.

Title: International Journal of Developmental Biology

URL: www.ijdb.ehu.es/

The official website for the International Journal of Developmental Biology allows searching of abstracts, full text for some articles in back issues, and special issues covering a variety of topics in developmental biology.

Title: Developmental Biology Online

URL:http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/dbindex.htm

The developmental biology online website developed for a course at the University of Guelph gives great outlines and photographs on various subjects in developmental biology. Some of which include cleavage, gametogenesis, gastrulation and information on various animals.

Title: Virtual Embryo

URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/virtualembryo/db_tutorial.html

This tutorial is designed as an addition to developmental biology lectures and introduces you to the dynamics of embryonic growth. It includes extensive information on C. elegans, Xenopus, Drosophila, chick, fish and the sea urchin.

Title: Visible Embryo

URL: www.visembryo.com

The visible embryo provides information on human development from conception to birth that can be used by students. Accompanying the pictures and information regarding normal development are pictures and information about abnormal embryonic development.

Title: Amphibian Embryology Tutorial

URL:http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/welcome.html

The amphibian embryology tutorial takes you through various stages, including oogenesis, cleavage, gastrulation and neurulation. Each stage provides background information as well as diagrams and pictures. There is also an extensive glossary.

Title: Sea Urchin Embryology

URL:www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/

The sea urchin embryology tutorial is great for the undergraduate level student and teachers. It has basic but thorough information on sea urchin embryology, as well as ideas for labs and activities.

Title: UrchiNet

URL: http://urchin.spbcas.ru/genet/Urchin/u0urnt.htm

The UrchiNet site contains genetic information about various species of sea urchins, but it also contains information on a range of embryonic stages of development. Those stages include the cleavage stage and blastula stage. The pictures included are 3-D.

Title: Xenbase: a Xenopus Web Resource

URL: http://vize222.zo.utexas.edu/

Xenbase is a database filled with information on the developmental biology of the frog, Xenopus.

Title: Zebrafish Information Network

URL:www.zfin.org

The zebrafish information network is a comprehensive database on everything there is to know about Zebrafish. Information includes transgenics, wild-type lines, genes, gene expression, genetics maps and publications. It also allows you to search for the names of labs and researchers that specify in Zebrafish.