The NCBI Entrez Taxonomy Homepage
The NCBI taxonomy database contains the names of all organisms that are
represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.
Click on the tree
if you want to browse the taxonomic structure or retrieve sequence data
for a particular group of organisms.
These are direct links to some of the organisms commonly used in molecular research projects:
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Credits: Joe Bischoff, Mikhail Domrachev, Scott Federhen, Carol Hotton, Detlef Leipe, Vladimir Soussov, Richard Sternberg, Sean Turner.