Chapter 1: An Overview of Cells and Cell Research

Weblinks

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
http://zfin.org/cgi-bin/webdriver?MIval=aa-ZDB_home.apg
The zebrafish

Tair: The Arabdopsis Information Resource
http://www.arabidopsis.org
The mustard plant, Arabidopsis

Yeast (Budding, Fission, and Candida)
http://www.yeastgenome.org/VL-yeast.html
The yeast, Saccharomyces