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Sensory systems Web alert Martin G Todman* and Philip J Benson† A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Addresses *Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QG, UK; e-mail: [email protected] † University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK; e-mail: [email protected]; URL: http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~pjb/ Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2000, 10:433–434
Sensory systems Olfaction http://www.leffingwell.com/ Leffingwell & Associates offer services for the perfume, food, flavour and beverage industries. This site contains a huge amount of information on olfaction and chemoreception (http://www.leffingwell.com/olfaction.htm), as well as many more associated URLs (http://www.leffingwell.com/links5.htm). Drosophila olfaction http://www.hhmi.org/news/axel.html Part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute news pages — this article reports on the discovery of odour-detecting receptors in Drosophila. Visit the home pages for more news and current research (http://www.hhmi.org/index.html). Pheromones http://home.earthlink.net/~notley/phero.htm Fun with pheromones – create your own experiments with, among other possibilities, the ‘Tease Shirt’, a pheromone scented top! Evolution of the human eye http://www.california.com/~rpcman/eye.htm http://www.darwinsmistake.com/Main/table-of-contents/ TableofContents.htm http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/evoleye.htm These sites are primarily concerned with the evolution versus creation debate — an interesting subject and one that is somewhat heated at the moment. Although the sites are sadly lacking in scientific (or philosophical) interest, some readers may find the debate intriguing. The first site takes the ‘Evolutionist’ standpoint; the latter two are written from a ‘Creationist’ perspective.
Zooplankton sensory motor systems http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~lucifer/ Home page for the laboratories of Dan Hartline and Petra Lenz at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center at Hawaii. Their research focuses on the sensory motor systems of zooplankton — small animals (ranging in size from microscopic to a few centimetres) whose swimming appendages are too small to enable them to swim effectively against the currents. The pages provide an introduction to the sensory system of these animals and links to information and current research, including zooplankton sensory and motor physiology, morphology, behavior, ecology and evolution. Developmental Touch & Pain http://www.oxy.edu/departments/psych/CHAPMAN/ PHYSIOLOGICAL/Sensory.htm Clinton Chapman’s ‘Developmental Touch & Pain’ tutorial pages, at Occidental College LA, contain lots of information on various aspects of sensory processing. Human (and other) genomes http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ http://www.celera.com/ http://www.tigr.org/ These are the home pages of The Sanger Centre, Celera Genomics and the Institute for Genomic Research. They are excellent sites for information on genetic sequences, news, database searches, software and links galore!
General links Gateway to the World http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/bio/gateway/ This page is the Biological/Natural Intelligence (Gateway to the World) section of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s web site. It provides extensive links to research groups and companies involved in Biological/Natural Intelligence and related activities. A wealth of well-maintained URLs are listed by country and by alphabetical order of the home institution. Other related topics linked to this page include cognitive systems, computational intelligence and classical artificial intelligence. Access to search tools, newsgroups, courses, software and journals can be found at http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/
Hearing http://www.parmly.luc.edu/ This site is the home page of the Parmly Hearing Institute based at Loyola University, Chicago. Linked pages outline information about the Institute and its research interests, which lie in the comparative study of sensory systems.
Charles A Dana Foundation http://www.dana.org/ Home page of the Dana Foundation and the Dana Alliance for brain initiatives with information about their research programs, activities and publications. Links include the Dana BrainWeb site (http://www.dana.org/brainweb/), containing many URLs for sites concerned with brain disease and disorders.
Starting place for links to speech and language http://www.irsc.org/language.htm This is the language/speech disorders page posted by the Internet Resources for Special Children (http://www.irsc.org/index.htm).
Neuroscion http://www.neuroscion.com Neuroscion is a web-based neuroscience information system run by Elsevier Science. It offers easy access to journal
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articles, either by direct keyword searching or by browsing through articles sorted into ‘themes’ and ‘topics’. A separate Forum section provides a discussion area, links to conferences, journal web sites, society web sites, other useful sites for the neuroscientist and access to currently available webbased publishing. In addition, there is a news area containing links to articles of general interest that have been published
very recently, and a laboratory page that provides researchbased links to recent book publications and relevant internet sites. The site is customisable through the Profile page and allows email-based alerting to new articles as they are published. Registration is free for a trial period until September 2000 and includes credits that allow for the purchase and downloading of full articles.
Sensory systems Web alert Martin G Todman* and Philip J Benson† A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Addresses *Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QG, UK; e-mail: [email protected] † University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK; e-mail: [email protected]; URL: http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~pjb/ Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2000, 10:433–434
Sensory systems Olfaction http://www.leffingwell.com/ Leffingwell & Associates offer services for the perfume, food, flavour and beverage industries. This site contains a huge amount of information on olfaction and chemoreception (http://www.leffingwell.com/olfaction.htm), as well as many more associated URLs (http://www.leffingwell.com/links5.htm). Drosophila olfaction http://www.hhmi.org/news/axel.html Part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute news pages — this article reports on the discovery of odour-detecting receptors in Drosophila. Visit the home pages for more news and current research (http://www.hhmi.org/index.html). Pheromones http://home.earthlink.net/~notley/phero.htm Fun with pheromones – create your own experiments with, among other possibilities, the ‘Tease Shirt’, a pheromone scented top! Evolution of the human eye http://www.california.com/~rpcman/eye.htm http://www.darwinsmistake.com/Main/table-of-contents/ TableofContents.htm http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/evoleye.htm These sites are primarily concerned with the evolution versus creation debate — an interesting subject and one that is somewhat heated at the moment. Although the sites are sadly lacking in scientific (or philosophical) interest, some readers may find the debate intriguing. The first site takes the ‘Evolutionist’ standpoint; the latter two are written from a ‘Creationist’ perspective.
Zooplankton sensory motor systems http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~lucifer/ Home page for the laboratories of Dan Hartline and Petra Lenz at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center at Hawaii. Their research focuses on the sensory motor systems of zooplankton — small animals (ranging in size from microscopic to a few centimetres) whose swimming appendages are too small to enable them to swim effectively against the currents. The pages provide an introduction to the sensory system of these animals and links to information and current research, including zooplankton sensory and motor physiology, morphology, behavior, ecology and evolution. Developmental Touch & Pain http://www.oxy.edu/departments/psych/CHAPMAN/ PHYSIOLOGICAL/Sensory.htm Clinton Chapman’s ‘Developmental Touch & Pain’ tutorial pages, at Occidental College LA, contain lots of information on various aspects of sensory processing. Human (and other) genomes http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ http://www.celera.com/ http://www.tigr.org/ These are the home pages of The Sanger Centre, Celera Genomics and the Institute for Genomic Research. They are excellent sites for information on genetic sequences, news, database searches, software and links galore!
General links Gateway to the World http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/bio/gateway/ This page is the Biological/Natural Intelligence (Gateway to the World) section of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s web site. It provides extensive links to research groups and companies involved in Biological/Natural Intelligence and related activities. A wealth of well-maintained URLs are listed by country and by alphabetical order of the home institution. Other related topics linked to this page include cognitive systems, computational intelligence and classical artificial intelligence. Access to search tools, newsgroups, courses, software and journals can be found at http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/
Hearing http://www.parmly.luc.edu/ This site is the home page of the Parmly Hearing Institute based at Loyola University, Chicago. Linked pages outline information about the Institute and its research interests, which lie in the comparative study of sensory systems.
Charles A Dana Foundation http://www.dana.org/ Home page of the Dana Foundation and the Dana Alliance for brain initiatives with information about their research programs, activities and publications. Links include the Dana BrainWeb site (http://www.dana.org/brainweb/), containing many URLs for sites concerned with brain disease and disorders.
Starting place for links to speech and language http://www.irsc.org/language.htm This is the language/speech disorders page posted by the Internet Resources for Special Children (http://www.irsc.org/index.htm).
Neuroscion http://www.neuroscion.com Neuroscion is a web-based neuroscience information system run by Elsevier Science. It offers easy access to journal
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articles, either by direct keyword searching or by browsing through articles sorted into ‘themes’ and ‘topics’. A separate Forum section provides a discussion area, links to conferences, journal web sites, society web sites, other useful sites for the neuroscientist and access to currently available webbased publishing. In addition, there is a news area containing links to articles of general interest that have been published
very recently, and a laboratory page that provides researchbased links to recent book publications and relevant internet sites. The site is customisable through the Profile page and allows email-based alerting to new articles as they are published. Registration is free for a trial period until September 2000 and includes credits that allow for the purchase and downloading of full articles.