Arabidopsis has been the pre-eminent model system for studying the role of small molecules in plant innate immunity; our results uncover a new branch of indole metabolism distinct from the canonical camalexin pathway, and support a role for this pathway in the Arabidopsis defence response.
Arabidopsis thaliana is clearly established as the pre-eminent model plant species [ 1, 2].
Among these species, the zebrafish is emerging as a pre-eminent model vertebrate for the in vivo analysis of many developmental and disease mechanisms.
The synchronizable and capsulated alpha-proteobacterium Caulobacter crescentus (henceforth Caulobacter) is the pre-eminent model system for cell cycle studies (Ravenscroft et al., 1991; Skerker and Laub, 2004; Curtis and Brun, 2010).
Hyphal development of C. albicans has become the most worked on system of filamentous growth in fungi and this is likely to retain its position as a pre-eminent model system for fungal developmental biology.
The pre-eminent model of complex adaptive patterns is leaf mimicry in moths, as most of their patterns are composed of multiple parts visually arranged to look like leaves.
The pre-eminent model of the last few decades has been the amyloid cascade hypothesis [ 10- 12], based on genetic data and the role of PS in the proteolysis of APP to release the 39 to 43 residue Aβ.
In mice, the developmental events underlying palatogenesis closely mirror those occurring in man; consequently, the mouse is the pre-eminent model organism for the study of mammalian palatogenesis (5).
And it was Wellington, not Nelson, who would become the pre-eminent role model for the Victorians.
Although Arabidopsis is the pre-eminent plant model, rice is a close second.
Cichlid fishes are pre-eminent non-model organisms for the study of ecological speciation because of their trophic polymorphism and rapid evolution [ 17, 18].
