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Taxonomy: Classifying Life |
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At least 1.7 million species of living organisms have been discovered, and the list grows longer every year (especially of insects in the tropical rain forest). How are they to be classified?
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PhyloCode |
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The PhyloCode is a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature. It is designed to name the parts of the tree of life by explicit reference to phylogeny. The PhyloCode will go into operation in a few years, but the exact date has not yet been determined. It is designed so that it may be used concurrently with the existing codes based on rank-based nomenclature (ICBN, ICZN, etc.). We anticipate that many people whose research concerns phylogeny will find phylogenetic nomenclature advantageous.
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Search Tree of Life |
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Search too for the Tree of Life Project
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser |
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The NCBI taxonomy database attempts to incorporate phylogenetic and taxonomic knowledge from a variety of sources, including the published literature, web-based databases, and the advice of sequence submitters and outside taxonomy experts.
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System |
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Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
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World Biodiversity Database |
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |
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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it.
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American Museum of Natural History |
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The Tree of Life Web Project |
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The Tree of Life is a collaborative web project, produced by biologists from around the world. On more than 2600 World Wide Web pages, the Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics.
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Discover Life |
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Discover Life helps you to identify things, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, use maps, report your findings, and contribute to and learn from the Web's growing encyclopedia of life.
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Mikko's Phylogeny Archive |
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Mikko Haaramo's private archive of various phylogenetic trees. 4,100 pages, most of them cladograms (phylogenetic trees) or taxonomic listings. This site is not peer-reviewed, although it appears to be of generally high quality.
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