The Drost Project Visual Guide to Animal Reproduction (Theriogenology)

From the University of Florida comes the Drost Project, a great source of online images relating to animal reproduction, or theriogenology:

The purpose of the Project is to share...visual images with students and colleagues around the globe. Initially the guide focused on bovine reproduction. Recently, we have added the guide for bubaline (water buffalo) reproduction. The visual guide is currently being expanded to include other species, with the equine and canine guides actively being developed. Pictures documenting unique conditions and cases contributed by theriogenologists from around the world are included. The Visual Guides are best viewed at the 1024 x 768 resolution.

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• Bovine reproduction guide


• Bubaline (water buffalo) reproduction guide

Image from Bovine Reproduction Guide

2005 Merck Vet. Manual now at ISEL

The most recent (9th) edition of the Merck Veterinary Manual has arrived at ISEL.

There have been many updates and revisions to the manual, addressing such topics as emerging diseases, advances in treatment and diagnosis, specialty fields, exotic pets, and zoonoses.

You can find the Manual in the ISEL Reference Collection, call no. SF 745 .M47 2005 REF.

Mammal Species of the World now available @ ISEL

Just in at ISEL: a new two-volume reference work.

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

You can find this book in the reference section of the Integrated Sciences & Engineering Library, call no. QL708 .M35 2005 Ref.

iSpecies.org: a species search engine

If you're looking for information about a species, you might want to give iSpecies.org a whirl. This new search engine queries three sources: NCBI, Yahoo Image Search, and Google Scholar. iSpecies.org claims to work best if you enter a species' scientific name.

I tried a search for Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth) and was very pleased with the results, which were divided into three neat sections: genomics info from MyNCBI; some nice (well, as nice as gypsy moths can be) images of the organism in various stages of its lifespan; and links to a number of scientific journal articles from Google Scholar.

Hosted at Glasgow University's Department of Zoology, iSpecies also has an associated blog.

(via ResearchBuzz)

Congratulations to John Clark

Congratulations to John M. Clark, Veterinary and Animal Sciences, on his grant from the MA Dept of Agricultural Resources to study Pesticide Analytical Services. [from UMass Amherst Research ACCESS Newsletter]

View titles on pesticide analysis at the UMass Libraries. Think we should own a title not listed here? Let us know.

New e-journals @ UMass Libraries

Attention, Veterinary and Animal Science types: The following new electronic journals, now available to the UMass community via the library catalog and/or e-journal locator, may interest you:

BMC veterinary research, 2005-
Canadian journal of veterinary research, 2002-
Canadian veterinary journal, 2002-
Frontiers in zoology, 2004-
Reproductive biology and endocrinology, 2003-

New open-access veterinary journal

A new open-access journal, BMC Veterinary Research, has been announced by BioMed Central. From their June 1 press release:

BioMed Central today announces the launch of BMC Veterinary Research, the first international Open Access journal to cover all areas of veterinary science and medicine. BMC Veterinary Research will provide unrestricted access to this multi-disciplinary field where readership is currently restricted by the high subscription prices of specialist journals. The journal is now accepting submissions at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcvetres.