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...Sonic, the Hedgehog Gene...
...class of genes -- to be called hedgehogs by convention -- that control a master switch in DNA molecules that tells cells whether they are to become skin, bone or muscle. The new genes are being named for hedgehog species, such as Indian and moonrat. One of them is even called Sonic, after the hedgehog hero of a popular video game...
Next, Riddle said, researchers must demonstrate that Sonic hedgehog is necessary as well as sufficient for limb development...
...Riddle claimed that he didn't like any of the choices. According to Riddle, a co-author of one of the three papers, he went home and inadvertently picked up a copy of Games magazine, only to see an advertisement for Sonic Hedgehog 2, the SEGA Genesis video game...
However, the dispute did not end there. According to Tabin, Philip W. Ingham, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the head of the third research team, did not like the name because in England Sonic is slang for "groovy" and "naming something Sonic made him sick." But he, too, eventually agreed to the name...