Timeline of model organisms
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| Year | Kingdom | Event type | Details | Location/researcher affiliation |
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| 1900 | Zea mays: Correns confirms Mendel’s findings. | |||
| 1902 | Mus musculus: Castle initiates genetic studies. | |||
| 1909 | Drosophila melanogaster: Morgan chooses organism. | |||
| 1913 | Z. mays: Emerson and East publish important quantitative genetics paper. | |||
| 1915 | D. melanogaster: First book on Mendelian genetics is published from the Morgan Group | |||
| 1927 | Neurospora crassa: Shear and Dodge discover sexual cycle and describe mating types | |||
| 1930 | Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Moewus develops genetic system. | |||
| 1935 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Winge describes haplo- and diplophase of life cycle. | |||
| 1937 | Paramecium spp.: Sonneborn and Jennings domesticate crosses and define mating types. | |||
| 1939 | T phages: Ellis and Delbrück describe replication cycle, ‘one-step growth. | |||
| 1941 | N. crassa: Beadle and Tatum isolate first biochemical mutants. | |||
| 1943 | Arabidopsis thaliana: Laibach initiates program in genetics and development. | |||
| 1943 | S.cerevisiae: Lindegren begins genetics with heterothallic strains. | |||
| 1944 | T phages: Delbrück initiates Phage Group. | |||
| 1946 | Escherichia coli: Lederberg and Tatum discover gene exchange. | |||
| 1946 | S. cerevisiae: Ephrussi discovers cytoplasmic petite colonie variant. | |||
| 1949 | S. cerevisiae: Roman begins major US genetic studies. | |||
| 1950 | C. reinhardtii: Lewin and Sager begin nuclear and organelle genetic studies. | |||
| 1950 | Z. mays: McClintock describes transposable elements. | |||
| 1951 | Phage lambda: Lederberg laboratory discovers phage and specialized transduction | |||
| 1952 | Phage P22: Zinder and Lederberg discover transduction | |||
| 1953 | Aspergillus nidulans: Pontecorvo describes genetic and parasexual systems | |||
| 1954 | N. crassa: First major article on map construction in N. crassa | |||
| 1956 | C. reinhardtii: Levine develops important genetic programme | |||
| 1958 | C. reinhardtii: Gillham begins genetics of chloroplast | |||
| 1958 | Tetrahymena thermophila: Allen and Nanney describe genetic system | |||
| 1960 | E. coli: Jacob and Wollman fully describe genetic system. | |||
| 1965 | A. thaliana: First International Arabidopsis Symposium. | |||
| 1965 | Caenorhabditis elegans: Brenner proposes programme in genetics of neural development. | |||
| 1966 | Homo sapiens: First edition of Mendelian Inheritance in Man | |||
| 1974 | C. elegans: Important genetics publication. | |||
| 1980 | D. melanogaster: NüssleinVolhard and Wieschaus isolate developmental mutants. | |||
| 1981 | D. rerio: Clonal propagation method published. | |||
| 1984 | A. thaliana: Leutwiler et al. determine genome size. | |||
| 1986 | D. rerio: Important genetics publication. |
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What the timeline is still missing
- Davis, R. H. (2004). The age of model organisms. Nature Reviews Genetics, 5(1), 69–76. doi:10.1038/nrg1250
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