Posted by andrzej grzywacz on 10-04-2010 09:06
#1
I have found interesting paper on taxonomic position of
Drosophila melanogaster http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464825a.html I didn't know previously about such problems with
D. melagoaster. For me this opinion of geneticists and their petition are strange. Do any of you know situation when International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has changed type species like in this case? Personally I think that commission did it right saving
D. funebris as a type species.
D. melanogaster
is some kind of celebrity, as it was written, but taxonomic rules are more important I think.
Posted by andrzej grzywacz on 15-04-2010 18:28
#3
Thank you. Indeed, I should first look on the home page. Sorry for commotion :|
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-04-2010 18:55
#4
Hehe, the commotion is hardly your doing... ;)