Worms, Flies or Fish? A Comparison of Common Model Organisms — Part 2: Models for human diseases
Non-mammalian model organisms are typically used in early research to deliver fast answers to a discovery problem. The most popular model organisms in biological and biomedical research are the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish and the nematode C. elegans. We provide an overview of the advantages and limitations of these organisms as models for human diseases in this post