“The mutant phenotype that we saw when we crossed the two deletions … was an inability of [fruitfly] larvae to carry out vigorous, concerted head swinging to scrape their way out of the egg shell…” So they named the gene “amontillado”. And a mutation causing learning defects is named “turnip”, because “vegetables are not well-known for their mental acuity.”
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