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Having ticked off flying, swimming and hopping things, our model organism series turns to Mus musculus: the invaluable mouse. 19/03/04
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Some of the most remarkable discoveries in biology have come from studies of the humble fruit fly. 12/11/02
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Exploring the genetics of anxiety. 20/04/07
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Genome analysis of the red jungle fowl, a wild ancestor of the domestic chicken, is completed by an international consortium. 09/12/04
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Researchers have deleted 3 per cent of the mouse genome, but the mice show no apparent ill effects. 20/10/04
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How do you make a taste bud? Genetics is beginning to reveal the recipe. 08/08/04
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The draft sequence of the genome of the Brown Norway strain of the laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is completed. 31/03/04
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The remarkable contribution of the African clawed frog to our understanding of development. 29/01/04
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No obesity or diabetes for a mouse engineered to be immune to a high-fat diet. 02/09/03
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First the fly, then the worm. This time, our series of articles exploring model organisms turns its attention to the zebrafish. 21/08/03
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A postgenomics programme in Oxford and Canberra aims to identify the genes controlling the mouse immune system. 01/07/03
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Technology centre
The inactivation of a specific gene in a mouse. 08/01/03
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An international consortium has published a draft sequence and analysis of the genome of the common mouse, Mus musculus. 05/12/02
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Background
Frogs and chickens provide good experimental models of vertebrate development and have therefore been adopted as model organisms even though they are not suitable for genetic analysis. 29/08/02
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a very simple animal that can be handled like a microbe but it shares many genes and molecular pathways with humans. 29/08/02
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The mouse is closely related to humans so most human genes have functional mouse counterparts and the genome is organised in a very similar manner. 29/08/02
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Baker's yeast is one of the simplest eukaryotic organisms but many essential cellular processes are conserved between yeast and humans. 29/08/02
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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has the longest history of any model organism and has been widely used to study genetics and developmental biology. 29/08/02
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Model organisms are easy to breed and study in the laboratory, and are used to obtain information about other species that cannot be studied directly. 29/08/02
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Two species of fish are widely used as model organisms: the zebrafish primarily because of its experimental and genetic amenability, and the pufferfish because of its extraordinarily compact genome. 29/08/02
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