Related Links
Contributors, Partners, and Institutions
Homepage of Dr. Alexander Haas, Curator of Herpetology and Professor, Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum, Hamburg, Germany. His laboratory has generated many excellent 3D visualizations of anatomy.
Homepage of Dr. Chris Sheil, Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Generating 3D reconstructions of turtle embryonic development.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
The University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory
Online Resources
The Digital Morphology library at the University of Texas: A outstanding, well-organized collection of 3D visualizations of fossils and skeletons generated from industrial CT scans.
Tree of Life Project: A collaborative web resource with information on the biodiversity, life history, and characteristics of life on Earth. Contributing authors are professional biologists from around the world.
AmphibiaWeb: A complete online resource that provides species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, literature references, photos and range maps of nearly every amphibian species in the world. It also provides links to museum collection information.
FrogWeb Amphibian Declines and Deformities: A website dedicated to collecting and disseminating information about amphibian malformations and declines.
Amphibians in Danger: A Worldwide Warning. A book by Ron Fridell. (Scholastic/Franklin Watts. 96 p.) Amazon.com listing. This is a great book for ages 9-12 (and above) that summarizes and describes how scientists devise and conduct research, how studies lead to varying inferences and interpretations, and the recent steps that have been taken to address amphibian declines.
Amphibian Anatomical Ontology (AmphibAnat): NSF-sponsored project dedicated to constructing semi-automatically a draft ontology of amphibian anatomy.
Morphobank: A web application for conducting phylogenetics or cladistics research on morphology.
Morphbank: An open web repository of biological images documenting specimen-based research in comparative anatomy, morphological phylogenetics, taxonomy and related fields focused on increasing our knowledge about biodiversity.
Computing Resources
WinSurf® and SURFDriver® 3D reconstruction software: Easy-to-use and affordable software for generating 3D surfaced visualizations from serial sections.
Alias | Wavefront Maya®: Professional 3D animation package that allows high-resolution, realistic 3D imaging and animation.
Lightwave 3D®: Relatively inexpensive, yet very powerful software for 3D animation and image rendering.
Wacom®: Provider of high-reolution pressure-sensitive monitors and digitizing tablets that helped to revolutionize scientific illustration and graphic design.
3D-Doctor: Vector Based 3D Medical Modeling and Image Software.
ImageJ: Public domain, Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health.