Stamets@lemmy.world to tumblr@lemmy.world · 1 year ago"Science is so harddddd"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1288arrow-down12
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minus-squarePositiveControllinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoMy favorite one is a Drosophila gene called couch potato: https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fgenetics%2F131.2.365 Overall Drosophila scientists are quite creative with names
minus-squarehinterlufer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoAltough they are kinda counterintuitive as the names typically describe the phenotype when the gene knocked out
minus-squarePositiveControllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYep, still getting confused everytime I have to deal with eye color (white+ is red and white- is white… I think?)
My favorite one is a Drosophila gene called couch potato:
https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fgenetics%2F131.2.365
Overall Drosophila scientists are quite creative with names
Altough they are kinda counterintuitive as the names typically describe the phenotype when the gene knocked out
Yep, still getting confused everytime I have to deal with eye color (white+ is red and white- is white… I think?)