Biology

The Library has access to a wide variety of information about individual species and their taxonomic relationships, from field guides to biodiversity databases.  Check out the links below for some of our suggested resources.  For a larger list of online and print resources, check out my Finding Species Information guide.  If you need more assistance, feel free to email me at samarti@umich.edu!

Important Notice

Some U.S. federal agencies and initiatives are modifying publicly available data and some datasets may not be accessible on their sites at this time. Look for a notice on visible web pages. 

For websites/datasets that appear to be inaccessible, here are two archives you could check:

• Internet Archive  
• Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data
   

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Missouri Botanical Garden's Tropicos
• Smithsonian’s Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
• World Biodiversity Database
• University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web
• Birds of the World

• Finding Species Information guide from U-M Library
• Arabidopsis Information Resource
• Phytome (plant comparative genomics resource)
• WormBase
• Mouse Genome Informatics
• ZFIN: The Zebrafish Information Network
• FlyBase
• Saccharomyces Genome Database