Five Popular Model Organisms
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
...1970s when Sydney Brenner brought it into the lab to study neuronal development (Brenner, 1973). C. elegans...scientific research. Yes, the same kind we use in breads and other baked goods! Yeast is cheap, simple and...maintained as they are housed in large groups, easily bred, and produce 50-300 eggs at a time. Zebrafish embryos...developed for emerging model organisms!
References
Brenner, Sydney. "The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans...