Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
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...many contexts within the fly including oogenesis and cytokinesis. Why name this protein after a vegetable...hedgehog exhibit abnormal segmentation during embryogenesis. Typically, regularly spaced denticles (bristles...such as cell movement/motility, development, cytokinesis, and muscle contractions (think skeletal muscle...monster, a meiotic arrest gene required for spermatogenesis
One of our smaller conference rooms is named... meiotic arrest gene that is necessary for spermatogenesis. Flies that lack cookie monster are sterile...to a failure of primary spermatocytes to enter meiosis. Testis of cookie monster mutant flies are filled...White-Cooper, 2003). Why call a gene required for spermatogenesis after a Sesame Street character? The scientists...