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18 November 2004 19:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enismirdalSome bored scientist decided to give some lines of retrotransposons (these are bits of DNA that jump around in genomes) silly names:
"In particular, the Arabidopsis thaliana and Drosophila melanogaster genome sequencing projects have recently disclosed a large number of new Ty3/Gypsy sequences. So far, elements of three different Ty3/Gypsy lineages had been described for A. thaliana. Here, we describe six new lineages, which we have called Tit-for-tat1, Tit-for-tat2, Gimli, Gloin, Legolas, and Little Athila. We confirm that plant Ty3/Gypsy elements form two main monophyletic groups."
And they even cited him in the list of references at the end:
"Thompson, J. D., D. G. Higgins, and T. J. Gibson. 1994. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, positions-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:4673–4680.[Abstract]
Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954. The lord of the rings. George Allen and Unwin, London.
Wright, D. A., and D. F. Voytas. 1998. Potential retroviruses in plants: Tat1 is related to a group of Arabidopsis thaliana Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons that encode envelope-like proteins. Genetics 149:703–715."
Yes, I also found papers talking about a protein called Frodo.
Oh, bored scientists are incredibly cute!
"In particular, the Arabidopsis thaliana and Drosophila melanogaster genome sequencing projects have recently disclosed a large number of new Ty3/Gypsy sequences. So far, elements of three different Ty3/Gypsy lineages had been described for A. thaliana. Here, we describe six new lineages, which we have called Tit-for-tat1, Tit-for-tat2, Gimli, Gloin, Legolas, and Little Athila. We confirm that plant Ty3/Gypsy elements form two main monophyletic groups."
And they even cited him in the list of references at the end:
"Thompson, J. D., D. G. Higgins, and T. J. Gibson. 1994. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, positions-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:4673–4680.[Abstract]
Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954. The lord of the rings. George Allen and Unwin, London.
Wright, D. A., and D. F. Voytas. 1998. Potential retroviruses in plants: Tat1 is related to a group of Arabidopsis thaliana Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons that encode envelope-like proteins. Genetics 149:703–715."
Yes, I also found papers talking about a protein called Frodo.
Oh, bored scientists are incredibly cute!
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Date: 18 Nov 2004 20:00 (UTC)Biologists were always fun!
And we simply have our quarks that are called "up", "down", "charmed", "beautiful" and similar... nonsense! LOL!
And how pwetty it would be to deal with a particle named... Erestor?! :P
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Date: 18 Nov 2004 23:01 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 09:38 (UTC)I doubt that Quark became of ST Ferengi... the other way around is quite possible, though! :P
Would be fun to learn about the Lorien brothers in, let's say... Electrodynamics... :P
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Date: 18 Nov 2004 20:13 (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 Nov 2004 23:02 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 10:34 (UTC)But I actually work in a dicot, a very tasty one...
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Date: 18 Nov 2004 22:33 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:44 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:30 (UTC)The compute named Loki ended up in the trash.
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Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:41 (UTC)Here at Cambridge, as I understand it, your computer's name is suffixed by the name of your college, or an abbreviation of it. So you get something-sel, something-caths and whatever. It can make some nice puns, like Rapun-sel, and people playing with things like Peterhouse (pet), Pembroke (pem) and Sidney Sussex (sid). But, of course, Jesus and Christ's colleges have had terrible problems with students who like to be 'ironic'. :)
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Date: 19 Nov 2004 18:27 (UTC)Jesus made haveing things like fuck.jesus impossible apparently.
LOL!
Date: 19 Nov 2004 09:41 (UTC)They've decided not to name another one Kenny, EVER! :P
Oh, and Cartman had to be upgraded so many times that it became THE BIGGEST SON OF A B*** there! LOL!
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Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:40 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Nov 2004 00:49 (UTC)Said Nile, who's in Cambridge on Saturday night
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Date: 19 Nov 2004 15:31 (UTC)I might add "Legolas the Retrotransposon" actually...