Links

Wolbachia Links

• Wolbachia at the Encyclopedia of Life

• Wolbachia and other inherited organisms

• Virtual Museum of Bacteria

• Infection divides two wasp species (Science)

• Wolbachia Genomics

• Wolbachia Genome Project

• Wolbachia, University of Queensland, Australia

• The Filarial Genome Project

• The European Wolbachia Project
  

• Wolbachia MLST Databases

Genome Links

• NCBI Genome Project

• TIGR Comprehensive Microbial Resource

• PIR Complete Genomes

• MAGPIE

• PEDANT

• GOLD[TM]: Genomes OnLine Database

• MBGD - Comparative Microbial Genome Database

• COG - Clusters of Orthologous Groups

• The Phylogeny Wing

• The Ribosomal Database Project (for rRNA derived phylogenetic trees)

Permits and Regulations

• The International Air Transport Association (IATA), Dangerous Goods Online
  

• To order IATA publications: Dangerous Good regulations
  

• Import-export regulations for selected countries, Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
  

• Treaty Database, American Society of International Law (ASIL), Wildlife Interest Group, Burlingame, CA, USA
  

• Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, USA
  

• Permits for collecting and exporting samples from Australia
  

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), collecting permits for Costa Rica
  

• European Union environmental legislation
  

• Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), collecting permits for Mexico

• To obtain current listings of endangered and threatened species, and federal permits for the US: US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), International Affairs, Arlington, VA
  

• To find out about quarantine requirements in shipping to the US, see the US Department of Agriculture (USDA):

1. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Hyattsville, MD
2. Veterinary Services, National Center for Import and Export (NCIE)
3. USDA, APHIS, Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)

• US Customs Service, Washington, DC, Importing and Exporting
  

• To determine if the sample from a vertebrate is disease-free: National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI, USA
  

• To determine whether importation to the US requires special permits because of disease risks: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA
  

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Nepean, ON, Canada
  

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  

• TRAFFIC, Cambridge, UK
  

• World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC, USA
  

• The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland
  

• To join the permits listserver: Email listserv@sivm.si.edu. No subject is required. In the body of the message, issue the command: Subscribe PERMIT-L Firstname Surname
  

Glossaries, Biological and Medical Resources

• Biosis, This index to selected quality Internet resources offers access to an immense range of zoological information. Choose to browse by subject or by animal name/group. Type in your own search terms; or use one of the selected short-cuts
  

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server Resources

• Genome Glossary from the Human Genome Project
  

• Genomics Glossary from CHI
  

• Life Science Dictionary from BioTech
  

• Glossary of Genetic Terms from NIH
  

• Glossary from CancerPage.com
  

• Bioremediation Glossary from NABIR
  

• Biology Resources from ORNL
  

• Multilingual Medical Terms
  

Molecular Biology Web sites, Products and Services

• Molecular Biology Techniques Forum and Molecular Biology Resources, hosted by the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce, Seattle, WA, USA
  

• Molecular Biology Databases on the Internet, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  

• BioLinks, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

• BioTechniques, Eaton Publishing Co., Natick, MA, USA
  

• Qiagen