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List of Model Organisms

Viruses

  • Phage lambda
  • Phi X 174
  • SV40
  • T4 phage
  • Tobacco mosaic virus
  • Herpes simplex virus

Prokaryotes

  • Sporulating Bacillus subtilis
  • Escherichia coli (E. coli)
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Caulobacter crescentus
  • Mycoplasma genitalium
  • Aliivibrio fischeri
  • Synechocystis
  • Pseudomonas fluorescens
  • Azotobacter vinelandii
  • Streptomyces coelicolor

Eukaryotes

Protists

  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
  • Stentor coeruleus
  • Dictyostelium discoideum
  • Tetrahymena thermophila
  • Emiliania huxleyi
  • Thalassiosira pseudonana

Fungi

  • Ashbya gossypii
  • Aspergillus nidulans
  • Coprinus cinereus
  • Cryptococcus neoformans
  • Neurospora crassa
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Schizophyllum commune
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe
  • Ustilago maydis

Plants

  • Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Selaginella moellendorffii
  • Brachypodium distachyon
  • Setaria viridis
  • Lotus japonicus
  • Lemna gibba
  • Zea mays
  • Medicago truncatula
  • Mimulus guttatus
  • Nicotiana benthamiana
  • Tobacco BY-2
  • Oryza sativa
  • Physcomitrella patens
  • Marchantia polymorpha

Animals

Invertebrates

  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Amphimedon queenslandica
  • Arbacia punctulata
  • Aplysia
  • Branchiostoma floridae
  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Orthoptera
  • Callosobruchus maculatus
  • Chorthippus parallelus
  • Ciona intestinalis
  • Daphnia
  • Coelopidae
  • Diopsidae
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Euprymna scolopes
  • Galleria mellonella
  • Gryllus bimaculatus
  • Hydra
  • Loligo pealei
  • Macrostomum lignano
  • Mnemiopsis leidyi
  • Nematostella vectensis
  • Oikopleura dioica
  • Oscarella carmela
  • Parhyale hawaiensis
  • Platynereis dumerilii
  • Podisma
  • Pristionchus pacificus
  • Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Schmidtea mediterranea
  • Stomatogastric ganglion
  • Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
  • Symsagittifera roscoffensis
  • Tribolium castaneum
  • Trichoplax adhaerens
  • Tubifex tubifex

Vertebrates

  • Mus musculus
  • Axolotl
  • Bombina bombina
  • Carolina anole
  • Felis sylvestris catus
  • Gallus gallus domesticus
  • Sigmodon hispidus
  • Canis lupus familiaris
  • Mesocricetus auratus
  • Cavia porcellus
  • Myotis lucifugus
  • Oryzias latipes
  • Heterocephalus glaber
  • Nothobranchius furzeri
  • Columba livia domestica
  • Poecilia reticulata
  • Rattus norvegicus
  • Rhesus macaque
  • Petromyzon marinus
  • Takifugu rubripes
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus
  • Xenopus tropicalis
  • Xenopus laevis
  • Taeniopygia guttata
  • Danio rerio
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