This is why I have a soft spot for fly-boys (or Drosophilia geneticists): cheapdate is a fruit fly gene whose mutation causes Drosophila to be extra sensitive to alcohol.
I’d also heard a great story about a fly lab where all new genes discovered were named after wines. If you were the lucky investigator who got to naming rights, the PI would buy you a really expensive bottle of it’s namesake. Needless to say, names along the lines of d’Yquem and Latour suddenly became popular.
