More and more UC Davis research is going online. Here are details on four new Web sites:

Brains — Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience created digital atlases of the brains of humans, monkeys, dogs, cats, mice, birds and other animals, and posted the material at BrainMaps.org.The site features the highest resolution whole-brain atlases ever constructed.

"Many users have described it as a 'Google Maps' of the brain," said Shawn Mikula, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis, and first author on a paper describing the work. The paper appears in the March edition of NeuroImage. The other authors are Issac Trotts and James Stone, researchers at the Center for Neuroscience, and Edward "Ted" Jones, director of the center and a professor of psychiatry.

Butterflies — Butterfly.ucdavis.edu comprises 35 years' worth of data on butterfly populations across Northern California, data that has important implications for the study of global climate change.

The data come from Professor Arthur Shapiro, of the Center for Population Biology, and the Section of Evolution and Ecology, who has monitored butterflies at Northern California sites from sea level to the Sierra Nevada since 1972.

Grapes — Integrated Viticulture Online, http://iv.ucdavis.edu, is designed to increase accessibility to the work of university researchers, including faculty, and Cooperative Extension specialists and farm advisers.

The UC Davis-based Foundation Plant Services coordinated the site's development for the systemwide Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources' Integrated Grape Production Workgroup.

The site's viticultural information ranges from grapevine breeding to worker health and safety. Photos and links to valuable publications, people and online resources are included.

Also new is the National Grape Registry, http://ngr.ucdavis.edu, developed and maintained at UC Davis. The site is intended as a source for all grape plant material available in the United States, including wine, table, juice and raisin grapes, as well as rootstock.

Pat Bailey and Andy Fell compiled this report.