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Lower organisms
- Aspergillus nidulans [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dictyostelium discoideum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phage lambda [r]: Add brief definition or description
Animals
- Sea urchin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Worm [r]: Free-living, transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, which lives in temperate soil environments. [e]
- Fruit fly [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mouse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frog [r]: The South African Clawed Frog, an important model system in many branches of biology. [e]
- Zebrafish [r]: Add brief definition or description
Plants
- Arabidopsis thaliana [r]: A small flowering plant widely used by plant biologists as a model organism for basic research. It is a dicotyledonous species and a member of the Brassicaceae or mustard family. [e]
- Maize [r]: Cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the world, and one of the most widely grown crops in the Americas. [e]
- Medicago truncatula [r]: A model organism for legume biology, commonly known as Barrel Medic and used as an annual forage legume. It forms symbioses with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia and mycorrhizal fungi. [e]
- Rice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Physcomitrella patens [r]: A species of bryophyte, a kind of moss, used as model organism for research in plant evolution, development and physiology. [e]
Yeast
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae [r]: One of today’s most widely used yeasts. [e]
- Schizosaccharomyces pombe [r]: Add brief definition or description
