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ReviewThe Journal of experimental biology2020

How to turn an organism into a model organism in 10 'easy' steps.

Benjamin J Matthews, Leslie B Vosshall

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In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of experimental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
59citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Evaluating the Validity of Model Organisms: A Review and a New Framework for Biologists.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  4. The sensory biology of mosquito gustation.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026
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  7. Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026
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  8. Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Benjamin J MatthewsDepartment of Zoology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4 ben.matthews@zoology.ubc.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8697-699X
Leslie B VosshallLaboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6060-8099
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Transforming Translational Science and Education to Benefit Human HealthUL1TR000043 · NCATS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI COLLER, BARRY · 2012 to 2015
$26.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000043
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many of the major biological discoveries of the 20th century were made using just six species:

Indexed as

AedesDrosophila melanogasterAnimalsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingMiceMosquito VectorsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeBehaviorCRISPR-Cas9GeneticsGenomeMosquitoTransgenesis

Identifiers

PMID32034051
PMCPMC7790198
OpenAlexW3004467187

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Registered trials

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