To: colorado tanker
Maybe it's just me, but there has to be a good story how sonic hedgehog got it's name. Wouldja believe it? Wikipedia has this: Sonic hedgehog, which says: "... sonic hedgehog was named for Sega's video game character Sonic the Hedgehog."
59 posted on
05/23/2006 10:15:20 AM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
61 posted on
05/23/2006 10:19:28 AM PDT by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: PatrickHenry
The first two discovered, desert hedgehog and indian hedgehog, were named for species of hedgehogs, while
sonic hedgehog was named for Sega's video game character Sonic the Hedgehog. In addition to orthologues of the three mammalian hh genes, zebrafish have two further homologues: echidna hedgehog, named for the eponymous spiny anteater,
and tiggywinkle hedgehog named for a character from Beatrix Potter's books for children. LOL! Gotta love a scientist with a sense of humor.
To: PatrickHenry; colorado tanker
From the wiki article:
Some clinicians and scientists criticise giving genes frivolous or quirky names, calling it inappropriate that patients with "a serious illness or disability are told that they or their child have a mutation in a gene such as Sonic hedgehog."
Doesn't seem like a problem to me, the gene has synonyms like SHH HHG1, HLP3, HPE3, and SMMCI
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