His team hopes to examine more closely how this transmission works, establishing a viral model system that could be used to shed light on other species.

Each of these has its own advantages and disadvantages as a model system.

Publication of the chicken genome enables expansion of transgenic techniques for advancing research within the chick model system.

Researchers using fission yeast as a model system also look at organelle dynamics and responses and the possible correlations between yeast cells and mammalian cells.

Much of this work employed the giant axon system of the squid as an experimental model system for molecular and biophysical approaches.