Links to interesting sites describing a variety of microbes (protista, bacteria, and even some fungi)

General

• Bad Bug Book   A Microorganisms (Bacteria, Protozoa, Worms and Viruses) and Natural Toxins Handbook presented by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Foodborne Pathogenic
• The Microbial World  Many very good profiles of groups of microbes (including fungi), contributed by Jim Deacon, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, and other microbiologists.
• Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology  Home of, among other things, the Microbe Zoo.
• NASA's SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor)    Beautiful global temperature maps and other images.  These maps give an indication of the global state of ocean chlorophyll content and land vegetation density.
• 3-D at Mic UK   3-D images of small animals, plants and aquatic microorganisms (including protozoa and Volvox!).  This is part of Micscape Magazine.  The author of this page, the dutch artist Wim van Egmond, has a number of other fun pages.  Check this out.
• Protist Movie Database  A Japanese site with video clips of a great many eukaryotic algae and protozoa.
• Protistan movement mechanisms  Animations of various kinds of flagellar, ciliar, pseudopodial movement in protists by Rosemarie Arbur
• Microbial Garden - Excellent information on a great many realms within the broad classification, "Microbe"

Algae

• The Algae Home Page  Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.  Check "Introduction".  Also many other links to other Algae sites.
• The Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences  The links under the title, "Diatom Identification Resource", are particularly valuable.
• Algae in Aquiculture facility at Clemson University  Another useful site - keys and illustrations also good for most other collections of microalgae.
  
• Seaweed Site  A source of general information on all aspects of seaweeds from University of Ireland, Galway.
• Algal Ed  The goal of ALGAL-ED is to provide educational tools for the student interested in learning about freshwater algae.  Includes a clever key to freshwater genera.

Protozoa

• Croc the Ciliate and the Little Green Heart   A Microbial Fairy Tale by Wim van Egmond, the Netherlands
• Smallest page on the web  Clever entry page into a wonderful discussion of a great variety of microscopic life, again by Wim van Egmond.  Includes pages devoted to some small, invertebrate animals, protozoa and algae.
• Website with pictures of Myxotricha paradoxa - click forward arrow twice to see movie of movement

Slime molds

• Forest Slime Molds  Excellent section of the "Hidden Forest" site out of New Zealand
• Photo Gallery of Myxomycetes  Beautiful close-up pictures of slime molds from the Georgia Museum of Natural History
• Site with Physarum and other protist movies

Prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea)

• How bacteria "swim"  A page from the Cells Alive site that explains bacterial flagellar motion.  You will need a current "movie player" plugin for your web browser
• Another page about bacterial movement
• Cyanosite  A Webserver for Cyanobacterial Research (Cyanobacteria used to be called Blue-green Algae)