Frank Zappa in popular culture

As an icon of counterculture and underground rock the American rock musician and composer Frank Zappa has been featured and referenced in various different media.

"[109] Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish Phialella zappai[110] in order to get the chance to meet the musician.

A Zappa concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero.

A small portion of this concert was released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore: Vol.

[113] A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infection is named zapA (others are named zapB through zapE).