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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris" data-source="post: 1394191" data-attributes="member: 2820">Got to give love to the plants here with my soon to be complete Ph.D. in Plant Genetics.In some systems though you would capitalize the first letter to designate the gene others and put the mutation in all lower case, in others you put the gene in all lower case and the mutation in italics and then there are proteins!But really one thing people have overlooked are species appelations. In the day to day functioning of science we don't refer to genes by their accession numbers (although we keep them handy), rather the gene names people have been giving are useful within one's own field. However, when looking across species you need to keep clear where the gene comes from. For instance the gene Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase is abbreviated as LTA4H (or soemtimes as LKH depending on who you ask). The human gene would then be HsLTA4H and say the chimp gene (similar but not exact) would be PtLTA4H. This convention would be helpful (and simple) for use in a game where you want to introduce a gene into another organism.And in reference to the gorilla myosin gene given above, and for Henry, remember it isn't always about the gene, but how active the gene is and where (the regulation of the gene). Many of my superheros had transgenes that had tweaks to their promoter regions <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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