The gene was named by Robert Riddle, a postdoctoral fellow at the Tabin Lab, after his wife Betsy Wilder came home with a magazine containing an advert for the first game in the series, Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

That one is fun because it’s so fundamental that everyone that takes developmental biology in college gets you read about it

Just wait till they find out about sushi domain binding something something

Shh…