Five Popular Model Organisms
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...physiologically similar to humans than many other model organisms, they are often used to study human diseases. Diseases...counterpart in humans (Liu et al., 2017) . Thus yeast can be used to study the molecular basis of human diseases...They share about 70% of their genes with humans and 85% of human genes associated with a disease have a ...completely sequenced and over 60% of human genes have an ortholog in C. elegans making it ideal to study ...PMCID: PMC5525645.
Mello, Craig C., et al. "Efficient gene transfer in C. elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance... 190-195.
Liu, Wei, et al. "From Saccharomyces cerevisiae to human: The important gene co‑expression ...the globe. These organisms share many genes with humans, are easily maintained in the lab, and have short...