Five Popular Model Organisms
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Blog Post
Published
April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
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Let’s start with the most preferred mammalian model organism of many researchers: the mouse ...Mus musculus). Mice have many advantages as a mammalian model organism for scientists as they have a relatively... relatively short generation time for mammals - the time between being born and giving birth - of about... a set of modular vectors that can be used to optimally control gene expression in specific cells of the...in zebrafish (Howe et al., 2013). Zebrafish are small, easily maintained as they are housed in large groups...