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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Setting scientific names at all taxonomic ranks in italics facilitates their quick recognition in scientific papers
IMA Fungus, Volume 11, No. 1, Article 25, Year 2020
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It is common practice in scientific journals to print genus and species names in italics. This is not only historical as species names were traditionally derived from Greek or Latin. Importantly, it also facilitates the rapid recognition of genus and species names when skimming through manuscripts. However, names above the genus level are not always italicized, except in some journals which have adopted this practice for all scientific names. Since scientific names treated under the various Codes of nomenclature are without exception treated as Latin, there is no reason why names above genus level should be handled differently, particularly as higher taxon names are becoming increasingly relevant in systematic and evolutionary studies and their italicization would aid the unambiguous recognition of formal scientific names distinguishing them from colloquial names. Several leading mycological and botanical journals have already adopted italics for names of all taxa regardless of rank over recent decades, as is the practice in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, and we hereby recommend that this practice be taken up broadly in scientific journals and textbooks. © 2020, The Author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Thines, Marco
Germany, Frankfurt am Main
Goethe-universität Frankfurt am Main
Germany, Frankfurt am Main
Senckenberg Biodiversität Und Klima Forschungszentrum
Aoki, Takayuki
Japan, Tsukuba
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Naro
Crous, Pedro Willem
Netherlands, Utrecht
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Knaw
Hyde, Kevin D.
Thailand, Chiang Rai
Mae Fah Luang University
Lücking, Robert K.
Germany, Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Malosso, Elaine
Brazil, Recife
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
May, Tom W.
Australia, Melbourne
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Miller, Andrew Nicholas
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
Redhead, Scott Alan
Canada, Ottawa
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
Yurkov, Andrey M.
Germany, Braunschweig
Deutsche Sammlung Von Mikroorganismen Und Zellkulturen Gmbh
Hawksworth, David Leslie
United Kingdom, London
The Natural History Museum, London
United Kingdom, Richmond
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
China, Changchun
Jilin Agricultural University
Statistics
Citations: 17
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 14
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/s43008-020-00048-6
ISSN:
22106340