A paper came out last week that reclassified the family of viruses I study into 3 viruses. It doesn't change the way I did or should have done my experiments, but it certainly changes the way I should describe them.
Today just got extra busy.
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So, someone in the Agency That Makes Fancy Names decided the virus has cousins or siblings or something and now new terminology is required,like, instantly? Is this more than a "tell the word processor to change A to B"?? Or are they inferring that there are now different organisms that you haven't distinguished and your work is up in smoke?? Sounds last-minute scary...???
Not scary, just annoying. They reclassified the genus Polyomavirus to three genuses- ortho-, avi- and wuki-polyomavirus. If I want to publish this introduction is a cutting edge review, I gotta move with the times. The new nomenclature makes sense, but isn't really a find and replace kind of problem.
You're studying Wookie viruses? Does George Lucas know about this? Maybe he'd give you a grant?
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