Aquatic Biology, a non-html listing of Internet resources, including material beyond the WWW. A brief outline is as follows: I) Taxonomy of Information Resources Available on the Internet II) Selected Internet Bibliography III) Gopher IV) World Wide Web V) WAIS VI) Library Catalogs VII) Databases and Special Collections VIII) Specimen Collections IX) Electronic Journals and Newsletters X) Publicly Accessible Files XI) Computer Conferences, Newsgroups, Listservs, and Mailing Lists
Balough Scientific Books has a collection of books on algae, diatoms, and limnology. Contains an extremely long length of text based listings along with their prices and some image links.
Cedar Eden Environmental LLC maintains a phytoplankton image library of organisms from Adirondack lakes that includes cyanobacteria. The site also contains a links library and information about the company's services.
CellTech, blue-green farmers. A site promoting sales of algae-based herbal supplements to consumers.
Cyanobacteria Publications, experimental writing and the visual arts with botanical themes.
Cyanobacteria Virtual International Index, an artist collective, literature and art with botanical themes.
Cyano Biotech, a spin-off from Humboldt-University Berlin, are doing drug discovery from cyanobacteria, offer microcystin standards and other cyanobacterial natural products, as well as services, e.g. LC/MS characterisations. They are interested in having collaboration with researchers, also on a non-profit basis.
CyanoLab, a division of BCI Engineers and Scientists in Lakeland, FL. Describes phycotoxin services available and has a small image gallery.
Drawings of a heterocystous organism at BIODIDAC teaching resources site. GIF1. GIF2.
Earthrise Farms, Spirulina farmers. Site dedicated to Spirulina. Contains information on benefits to health and the environment. Also has links to supplement products growing Spirulina and safety of human consumption. Within the site there is a library with research and other related information.
Koeltz Scientific Books. Go to catalogs, then classification, then algae, then cyanophyceae. Has publications on botany and zoology with an online catalog that can be searched by author, title, or keyword. Page possesses a series of links including publishers, new member login, and other algae and botanical sites.
Light Force. A Spirulina company founded by Christopher Hills with affiliations to Royal Body Care Company. Dr. Christopher Hills, who spent over 30 years personally researching alternative food sources for solving world hunger, as well as improving human health, thus developing Spirulina-based nutritional products called Light Force.
About Donald A. Bryant's book "The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria", "..summarizes more than a decade of progress in analyzing the taxonomy, biochemistry, physiology, cellular differentiation and developmental biology of cyanobacteria. It's intended for graduate students and researchers in the fields of photosynthesis, microbiology, plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and biotechnology."
Nanoworld (Cyanobct.gif) (U. of Queensland, Australia). The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular, and macromolecular scales. The role of the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is to promote, support and initiate research and teaching in the applications of microscopy and microanalysis. Page has links to research, instrumentation, resources, and other links that include the U. of Queensland home page and their library.
Phycotech. Acquired by Edenspace Systems Corporation, a company that markets algal identification and enumeration kits. This company uses living plants to improve environmental quality and human health. They incorporate an exciting new approach, called phytoextraction, which literally grows a clean environment. Page has links to more information on phytoextraction/remediation and products (i.e. different areas and ways their process can be implemented).
Royal BodyCare, purveyor of Spirulina products
SPB Academic Publishing has books on algae, a large list of publications by Backhuys Publishing which also lists individual prices. Subject matters include ecology, aquatic biology, and physiology.
Dr. Mark A. Schneegurt, mark.schneegurt@wichita.edu
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