Interesting links:

AVib    Association of Vibrio Biologists

Culture Collections

1. WDCM   World Data Center for Microorganisms
   

2. ATCC    American Type Culture Collection

   

   
   

3. BCCM   Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms
   

4. CCT       Coleção de Culturas Tropical
   

5. CECT    Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo
   

6. CIP       Collection de l'Institut Pasteur
   

7. DMSZ   Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
   

8. JCM     Japan Collection of Microorganisms
   

9. NCIMB  National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria
   

more collections

Federations

WFCC    World Federation of Culture Collections

FEMS     Federation of European Microbiological Societies

USFCC   US Federation of Culture Collections

Societies

AVib     Association of Vibrio Biologists

ASM    American Society for Microbiology

AAM    Asociación Argentina de Microbiología

AMM   Asociación Mexicana de Microbiología

BSM    Belgian Society for Microbiology

ACM    Asociación Chilena de Microbiología

IUMS   International Union of Microbiological Societies

SUM    Sociedad Uruguaya de Microbiología

SGM    Society for General Microbiology

SEM     Sociedad Española de Microbiología

Bioinformatic resources

The taxonomy of vibrios

Bioinformatics net

Approved bacterial names

GenBank

European Bioinformatics Institute

Ribosomal Database Project II

Software

MEGA    Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis

BioEdit   Biological sequence alignment editor