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)