On March 30th, 2017, Manfred Laubichler, Julia Damerow and Erik Pierson published a paper titled The diversity of experimental organisms in biomedical research may be influenced by biomedical funding.
Contrary to concerns of some critics, we present evidence that biomedical research is not dominated by a small handful of model organisms. An exhaustive analysis of research literature suggests that the diversity of experimental organisms in biomedical research has increased substantially since 1975. . .