Useful and interesting biology websites:
Embryology:
www.devbio.com (Gilbert's text site)
Virtual Embryo (Browder et al.'s text site)
Yahoo!
Science:Developmental Biology
Videos & graphics (you will need QuickTime for these, and some clips may take @2 minutes to load)
Sponge
wound healing
Time-lapse video (900x real time). This
preparation was made by my honors student John Neff in April 2002.
The video shows the closure of a 1-mm-long wound in Aplysilla longispina.
The wound closed in about 7 hours, due to the crawling activities of cells
at the margin.
Myosin
& actin video
(rendered by G. Johnson of fiVth media, from Vale & Mulligan, Science
288,
88 (2000))
F-Actin
in leading edge of newt lung epithelial cell
250x real time
F-Actin
and Microtubules in newt lung epithelial cell
275x real time
( both from W. Salmon et al., Journal of Cell Biology, 158,
# 1, 31-37 (July 8, 2002 ))
Marine & Coral reef biology:
Monterey Bay Aquarium
MBARI
Web Server
CFD
Dive Club Southport NC/ Links
General sources:
Cell & molecular biology:
The
National Center for Biotechnology Information