...cmr.   tinman and bagpipe, two genes important for mesoderm differentiation Now, let's turn tinman and bagpipe...Rolf Bodmer discovered Tinman when he observed that flies with a defective tinman gene fail to develop ...Sleeping Beauty, Cookie Monster, Spaghetti Squash, Tinman, and Bagpipe. How does a gene get its name? Often...embryo which becomes muscles and connective tissues. tinman and bagpipe are both homeobox genes that are part...Drosophila embryos (Azplazu and Frasch, 1993).  Tinman, which is spatially restricted to the dorsal mesoderm...the developing embryo (Azplazu and Frasch, 1993). Tinman is specifically involved in the formation of the...whose only wish was to have a heart (Following the Tinman, 2016). Bagpipe on the other hand, is important...