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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]: Add brief definition or description
• 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

Yeast

• Saccharomyces cerevisiae [r]: One of today’s most widely used yeasts. ^[e]
• Schizosaccharomyces pombe [r]: Add brief definition or description