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	Tree of Life URL: http://tolweb.org/tree/ ODP description: A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other. Page title: Tree of Life Web Project
	Integrated Taxonomic Information System URL: http://www.itis.gov/ ODP description: Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. Page description: Hosted by the USGS Center for Biological Informatics (CBI), through the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). Page designed through the cooperative efforts of interagency ITIS Teams. Point of Contact: Dr. Thomas Orrell orrellt@si.edu
	Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium URL: http://www.virtualherbarium.org ODP description: Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants. Page title: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Botanical Resource Center and Virtual Herbarium Page description: The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Botanical Resource Center is a clearinghouse for botanical information and data. It has a huge virtual herbarium, thousands of plant pictures from all over the world, cladograms, keys, and databases too!
	Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification URL: http://www.eti.uva.nl/ ODP description: Aims to develop scientific and educational computer aided information systems, to improve the general access to, and to promote the broad use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide. Page title: ETI BioInformatics Page description: ETI BioInformatics is dedicated to improving on a global scale the quantity, quality and accessibility of biodiversity information on CD- ROMs and the Web.
	Taxonomy URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy ODP description: Information from Wikipedia on the practice and science of classification, the arrangement of organisms in a hierarchical structure. Page title: Taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy URL: http://web.nhm.ku.edu/peet/ ODP description: National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms. Page title: NSF PEET Project Homepage
	Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases URL: http://www.biocollections.org/ ODP description: Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journals. Page title: Biodiversity and Biological Collections Page description: Devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind. Within these pages you will find information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority files, directories of biologists and links for hundreds of biodiversity and collection resources.
	NCBI Taxonomy Homepage URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/ ODP description: Provides a taxonomy browser, taxonomy resources and other information. Page description: The NCBI Taxonomy database is a curated set of names and classifications for all of the organisms that are represented in GenBank.
	American Society of Plant Taxonomists URL: http://www.sysbot.org/ ODP description: Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants. Page title: Systematic Botany - American Society of Plant Taxonomists
	Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer URL: http://www.ubio.org ODP description: A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information. Page description: uBio is a networked information service for biological information resources. This service is based upon the Taxonomic Name Server (TNS), a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
	BioNET - International URL: http://www.bionet-intl.org ODP description: A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management. Page title: BioNET-INTERNATIONAL - Homepage
	Is it Time to Revise the System of Scientific Naming? URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1204_hominin_id.html ODP description: Article from National Geographic News arguing that the taxonomic classification system devised by Linnaeus is oudated by genetic research that shows that morphological similarities are not necessarily proof of evolutionary relatedness. Page title: Viewpoint: Is It Time to Revise the System of Scientific Naming? Page description: The scientific classification system devised by Linnaeus to describe evolutionary relationships has been in use for well over 200 years. The system is being challenged as geneticists get down to the molecular level. Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist, sorts out the battle lines.
	Scalenet - Glossary URL: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glossary.htm ODP description: A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects. Page title: Glossary
	Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics URL: http://www.bernstein.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/odonata/glossary.htm ODP description: An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
	Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html ODP description: Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy. Page description: Some weird and wacky scientific names
	Biomedical Ontology URL: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/biomedical.htm ODP description: About two dozen links collected by the Ontology Project at the philosophy department of State University of New York at Buffalo. Page title: Buffalo Ontology Site
	Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow URL: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/ ODP description: About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects. Page title: Page Lab
	Science at the Natural History Museum URL: http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/ ODP description: A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity. Page title: Research and curation - Natural History Museum Page description: The home page of the Natural History Museum (London)'s academic website.
	DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy URL: http://delta-intkey.com/ ODP description: A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems. Page title: Index of /
	Pickett Lab: Taxonomy, Evolution and Behavior URL: http://www.socialwasps.com ODP description: Dr Kurt M. Pickett is leading research into the taxonomy of the Vespidae, the role of taxonomy in biology and various methodological and computational issues in phylogenetics.