If you thought that all the nerds do physics, think again. I'm preparing a presentation for my masters' course; it's about a paper about some research about drosophila (a.k.a. fruit-fly). Now all the clinically insane people in life science hang out in cell biology, or so it seems, whilst the nerds do drosophila stuff (more whole-organism and more likely to be developmental biology related work). Symptoms? Protein names, including such brilliant examples as:
- Bazooka (have a hole both dorsally and ventrally)
- Hedgehog, and even better, in humans: Sonic Hedgehog (mutant Dros. larvae look a bit like hedgehogs)
- Gherkin (no clue)
- Klingon (again, no clue)
- Scott of the Antartic (mutants have one defective pole in their mitotic spindle)
- Ken and Barbie (mutants have no external genitalia)
- Lost in Space (mutation leads to abnormal axonal projection of nerve cells)
- British Rail (disrupts the 'always early' gene)
- Cheap Date (higher alcohol sensitivity)
- Ring (Really Interesting New Gene - as nobody initially knew what it did)
- Son of Sevenless (and also Daughter of Sevenless and Bride of Sevenless; don't know what they do though)
- Sunday driver (problems with neuronal molecule transport)
3 comments:
I'm a big fan of Sonic Hedgehog, still. I mean, Sega, yay ;)
whaha :) humor! maybe the sevenless genes makes them unable to count to seven? :-P or they misspelled seven legs?
Okay, about sevenless: It's needed for development of R7 cells (photoreceptor cells), so mutants lack this seventh type of cell. Though I have to agree, they probably also can't count to seven.
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