Five Popular Model Organisms
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Blog Post
Published
April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
...the the developing zebrafish pancreas. They first tagged these cells using plasmids. Then using HOTcre, ...more commonly known: the fruit fly. The fruit fly has been used in scientific research for over a century... a transgenic mouse line. Over the years the fly has become an ideal model organism to study an array ...development, genetics, and the nervous system. The fly has also emerged as an important human disease model ... described in 1993 by Norbert Perrimon’s lab and has been continuously improved upon since then. If you...Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Since the 1960s, the zebrafish has gradually become an important model organism. They...Caenorhabditis elegans)
The worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has been used extensively as a model organism since the...