Some additional reading on Animal Biology (Module 7)

Animal Diversity and Evolution links

• Phylogeny - The Tree of Life - From the University of Arizona, a journey into the relationships between all the organisms (living and extant) on this planet
• Marine Invertebrates - There are lots of incredible animals that aren't warm and fuzzy!
• Animal Diversity Web - Animal photos and sounds from the University of Michigan
• The Electronic Zoo - Information on just about every animal you ever heard of, and quite a few you haven't heard of!
• Developmental Biology Links - Web resources and pictures, movies etc.
• Sea Urchin Fertilization - an online tutorial from Stanford University

• Dissection Links
• Dissection of the Laboratory Mouse (PDF)
• Circulation/Respiration links
• The Online Heart - Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
• Circulation/Lymphatic system - Online textbook with lots of information!
• Respiratory system - Another chapter from an excellent online textbook
• The Circle of Blood - a primer, with activities, for online study of the human circulatory system
• Human Anatomy and Development links
• The Visible Embryo - an online tutorial on human development
• Anatomy & Physiology web resources - A good list of links to sites of interest to anatomists and histologists
• Immunology links
• OUCH! What happens when you get a splinter and your immune system responds. From Cells Alive!, an excellent and entertaining site for cell biology.
• Understanding the Immune system - A good basic primer from the NIH
• AIDS Weekly - news reports and research results from the war against HIV
• The life cycle of HIV - an animated tutorial from Toronto General Hospital
• Website for the animated film "Osmosis Jones", starring Chris Rock as a white blood cell...
• Bird Flu Book - A Virus of our Own Making - online reference book about bird flu and the history of the influenza virus.
• Muscloskeletal Systems and Nerves/Senses
• Hydrostatic skeletons - How an earthworm moves without bones
• Nerve - An interactive tutorial on the action potential. Highly recommended!
• Human reaction times - A statistical perspective and another reaction time tester
• Membrane potential simulation - Change sodium and potassium concentrations or conductances and see how the membrane potential is affected
• Sacromere shortening - A brief and lucid animation from McGraw-Hill
• Skeletal Muscle - An online tutorial
• Synapse - The Movie: An animated synapse from Tufts University
• Mice on Drugs - An interactive tutorial that illuminates the effects of various recreational drugs on your nervous system
• Blind spots and your brain - An interactive exercise to teach you about visual blind spots and how your brain compensates for them.
• Medical Dictionary - Confused by some big medical term? Try out this online medical dictionary (from Belgium) to see if it can lessen the confusion
• Urinary system
• Kidney Functions/Metal Toxicology - problem set and tutorials from the University of Arizona
• How the Kidney Works - A Macromedia Flash tutorial from Nephron.com!

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November 5, 2009