X-Nico

unusual facts about model organism



Nod factor

The two LysM (lysin motif) receptor kinases (NFR1 and NFR5) that appear to make up the Nod factor receptor were first isolated in the model legume Lotus japonicus in 2003.

Sound localization

The tiny parasitic fly Ormia ochracea has become a model organism in sound localization experiments because of its unique ear.

Sweet pea

The sweet pea is thus a model organism being used in early experimentations in genetics, particularly by the pioneer geneticist Reginald Punnett.

Xanthoria parietina

It was chosen as a model organism for genomic sequencing (planned in 2006) by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI).


see also

Edward Kravitz

Ed continued to explore the function of amines using Homarus americanus, the American lobster, as a model organism to study aggression.

Gmod

Generic Model Organism Database, an open source software project for model organism databases

Hyaloperonospora parasitica

For instance, the taxonomically correct name of the parasite of the well-known model organism Arabidopsis thaliana is Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis, not H. parasitica, whereas the pathogen of Brassica has to be called Hyaloperonospora brassicae.

Open Biomedical Ontologies

The Generic Model Organism Project (GMOD) is a joint effort by the model organism system databases WormBase, FlyBase, MGI, SGD, Gramene, Rat Genome Database, EcoCyc, and TAIR to develop reusable components suitable for creating new community databases of biology.

Phage group

Delbrück was unimpressed with Morgan's experimentally complex model organism Drosophila, but another researcher, Emory Ellis, was working with the more elementary phage.

Pombe

Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the fission yeast, a yeast species used as a model organism in molecular and cell biology

Ruth Sager

From 1951 to 1955 was a staff member at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi as a model organism.