title: Emerging developmental model systems.
abstract: This primer briefly describes four emerging animal model systems that promise to provide insights into specific aspects of developmental biology. Highlighted here are two relatively well-characterized model systems, Gasterosteus aculeatus (three-spine stickleback fish) and Schmidtea mediterranea (planarian), as well as two organisms on which research is in its infancy, Carollia perspicillata (short-tailed fruit bat), and the basal metazoan, Trichoplax adhaerens. Scientists who helped develop these species into model systems discuss why they chose to research these animals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. jkiefer@neuro.utah.edu
authors.forename: Julie C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kiefer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / Q000235:genetics*; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D023421:Models, Animal; D010932:Planarians / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D023701:Smegmamorpha / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology