ISOP Image Resources
Recognizing the value of sharing image collections generated by well-known scientists, ISOP provides links to some of these collections.
ISOP IMAGE COLLECTIONS
A Pocket-sized guide to Protists – A Biol203 Primer by Sirus Grames-Webb, Vittorio Boscaro, and Patrick Keeling
Available online: https://www3.botany.ubc.ca/keeling/PDF/A_Pocket-Size_Guide_To_Protists_v2.1.pdf
JOHN DOLAN – Plankton Researcher and Marine Biologist
- World-renown expert on planktonic protists, especially tintinnids
- Accomplished photographer, author, and artist
- Devoted teacher and supporter of young investigators
- Generous in service to ISOP in many roles: President & Membership Secretary
- Honorary Membership Committee
John is an avid collector of historical biodiversity documents and devoted to communicating the many lessons learned from the early protistology and biodiversity literature to today’s scientists.
Link to John Dolan’s collection: gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/
France, Roscoff Culture Collection: Marine Microalgae, Macroalgae, Protists, Bacteria and Viruses.
AlgaeBase: 179,161 species and infraspecific names; 23,703 images; 73,546 bibliographic items; 584,548 distributional records.
Micro*Scope (inactive). The pages are accessible through the web archives
Japan NIES Collection. Culture strains of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic microalgae, protozoa and endangered algae are maintained in the Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES Collection, Tsukuba, JAPAN). These strains are available for educational, research and developmental purposes. NIES Collection accepts the deposition of strains, which are important for environmental as well as basic and applied researches.
Microworld – world of amoeboid organisms: (Ferry Siemensma). Microworld offers an introduction to amoeboid organisms. The site includes observations by Ferry Siemensma, recorded in both drawings and more than 10,000 photomicrographs and video.
Protist.ru: Integrated web-based information system on protist biodiversity.
Bigelow National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA): It began from the private culture collections of Dr. Luigi Provasoli at Yale University and Dr. Robert (Bob) R. L. Guillard at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Algae Resources Database (Japan): The National Institute for Environmental Studies preserves and provides a wide range of algae and protozoan lineages across 21 phyla and 77 classes, while Kobe University preserves and provides major taxa of marine algae.
https://shigen.nig.ac.jp/algae/imageListPageAction.do?page=1
Japan Protist Information Server. This server provides 81,037 images of protists and other microorganisms (768 genera; 3,226 species; 15,878 samples) and 2,261 movie clips as research and educational resources.
Real Micro Life: A variety of species collected and photographed by Martin Kreutz in Simmelried and the surrounding areas.
Plingfactory: An online catalog of the species found around the Department of Biology of the Städtisches Gymnasium Gevelsberg in the southern part of the Ruhr-district in Germany. The site is maintained by Michael Plewka.
ATCC (American Type Culture Collection): private for-profit company.
https://www.atcc.org/microbe-products/protistology#t=productTab&numberOfResults=24
UK Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP): a Biological Resource Centre located within the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) campus near Oban, Scotland
Nordic Microalgae: The web site is a source of information about microalgae and related organisms in the Nordic area, i.e. the Baltic Sea, the North East Atlantic and lakes, rivers and streams in the area. This site is of use for science, education, environmental monitoring etc. The content of the site is mainly supplied by the users.