The rise to dominance of genetic model organisms and the decline of curiosity-driven organismal research

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About the Authors

Sarah M. Farris

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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Drosophila melanogaster
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