Table 1.

Summary of non-vertebrate host models that have been adapted for the study of medically important fungi

Fungus	Drosophila melanogaster	Galleria mellonella	Bombyx mori	Caenorhabditis elegans	Acanthamoeba ycastellanii	Dictyostelium ydiscoideum	Culex quinquefasciatus	Blattella germanica	Arabidopsis thaliana
Molds
Aspergillus	+ [11]	+ [17]						+ [31]
Zygomycetes	+ [12]
Fusarium	+ [13]	+ [18]							+ [32]
Scedosporium	+ [13]
Dimorphic fungi
Histoplasma				+ [24]	+ [27]
Blastomyces					+ [27]
Sporothrix					+ [27]
Yeasts
Candida	+ [14]	+ [19]	+ [23]	+ [25]			+ [30]
Cryptococcus	+ [15]	+ [20]		+ [26]	+ [28]	+ [29]
Pneumocystis	+ [16]	+ [21]
Dermatophytes
Microsporum	+ [22]

+ denotes that the corresponding non-vertebrate host has been used for studying the specific fungal pathogen. References are noted within the bracket.