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Table 1 The 'top ten' organisms from the aggregate of the five years (1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005) under study.

From: Developmental biologists' choice of subjects approximates to a power law, with no evidence for the existence of a special group of 'model organisms'

Genus

Incidence

Incidence (%)

Mus

1241

26.9

Drosophila

609

13.1

Gallus

471

10.2

Xenopus

377

8.2

Brachydanio

221

4.8

Rattus

157

3.4

Caenorhabditis

136

2.9

Homo

109

2.4

Dictyostelium

85

1.8

Strongylocentrotus

76

1.6