List of model organisms

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Escherichia coli is a gram-negative prokaryotic model organism
Drosophila melanogaster, one of the most famous subjects for experiments

This is a list of model organisms used in scientific research.

Phages (infecting prokaryotes):

Animal viruses:

Plant viruses:

Bacteria

Sporulating Bacillus subtilis

Bacteria with minimal synthetic genomes

Bacteria with synthetic, minimized genomes provide a near-"blank slate" for study. Foreign genes, natural or artificial, can be introduced into these minimal bacteria to study their function as well as what is needed for their function.

Archaea

Eukaryotes

References

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