The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-4320, USA.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 May;67(5):1618-1619. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001816. Epub 2017 Jun 18.
We here present a survey of the increasing use of the -ensis (-ense) ending for the formation of specific epithets that do not refer to geographical locations but to names of research institutes or their acronyms. To our opinion the use of the -ensis (-ense) ending must be discouraged for such purposes, the formation of nouns in the genitive case being preferred for the formation of such arbitrary epithets. Emendation of Appendix 9 - Orthography to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes is proposed with guidelines for the formation of such names.
我们在此介绍了越来越多地使用 -ensis (-ense) 结尾来构成特定名称的情况,这些名称并非指地理位置,而是指研究机构的名称或其缩写。我们认为,出于此类目的,不应鼓励使用 -ensis (-ense) 结尾,而应首选属格形式的名词来构成此类任意的名称。我们还提议对《国际原核生物命名法规》的附录 9-拼写进行修正,并提供了构成此类名称的指导方针。