Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature

Patrícia Guedes; Fernanda Alves-Martins; Javier Martínez Arribas; Sumita Chatterjee; Ana M.C. Santos; Amir Lewin; Longji Bako; Paul W. Webala; Ricardo A. Correia; Ricardo Rocha; Richard J. Ladle

doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02022-y

Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature

Patrícia Guedes, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Javier Martínez Arribas, Sumita Chatterjee, Ana M.C. Santos, Amir Lewin, Longji Bako, Paul W. Webala, Ricardo A. Correia, Ricardo Rocha, Richard J. Ladle

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1157-1160
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Volume	7
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02022-y
State	Published - 1 Aug 2023

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