Resources |
Resources |
The scientific method
- Strong Inference, by Platt, 1964 (pdf file). Read this article if you are unfamiliar with hypothesis formulation, determining the predictions of your hypothesis, and the importance of falsification.
Some user-friendly taxonomic databases
- Tree of Life
- Animal Diversity Web
- Animal Diversity Web "middle" level accounts (e.g. salamander families)
- ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
The big player in on-line molecular datasets
An amalgam of useful sites
Organizations
- SCOPUS (Full-text database to over 14,000 journals, mostly science, with backfiles to 1965. All you need to access this is your TESC ID.)
- Several systematics and evolutionary biology links
- Comprehensive assortment of available phylogenetic programs (including PAUP and MacClade, which we are using in this program)
- Several more useful phylogeny links (scroll to bottom for particularly useful sites if you're considering molecular work)
Searchable Online Literature Databases
- Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology (publishes Northwestern Naturalist, and is the oldest scientific association devoted to the study of vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest. Their next annual meeting will be at TESC in March of 2006, and they encourage student attendance and participation.)
- The Society for Systematic Biology (publishes Systematic Biology)
- The Willi Hennig Society (publishes Cladistics)
- Ornithological research archive (Older issues of seven primary bird journals, several of which BioOne has current issues of).
Grant and Internship Opportunities
Some articles or other information mentioned in class
- Haig, David. 1993. Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy. Quarterly Review of Biology 68(4): 495-532. Mentioned in discussion of placental homologues and arms races between mother and embryo / fetus (Oct 10)
- Glossary of vertebrate anatomy, paleontology, and related terms (Oct 24)