Should not be allowed to name genes any more. As if "sonic hedgehog" weren't silly enough, the naming of the Fringe genes in the Drosophila Notch signaling pathway leads to ludicrous names such as "manic fringe", "radical fringe", and "lunatic fringe" for the vertebrate homologs. You know it's bad when you can tell what organism a gene was first discovered in based on the silliness of its name.
Oh, and it turns out that these critters aren't really fruit flies, anyways.
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