Request for public discussion and ballot to add rules on paratypes to the SeqCode and amend recommendations on name formation

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2605, United States.
² School of Geography and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, United Kingdom.
³ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0512, United States.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biosciences, Aalborg University, 9220 East Aalborg, Denmark.

William B Whitman et al. ISME Commun. 2026.

. 2026 Jan 10;6(1):ycaf238.

doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf238. eCollection 2026 Jan.

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2605, United States.
² School of Geography and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, United Kingdom.
³ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0512, United States.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biosciences, Aalborg University, 9220 East Aalborg, Denmark.

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Keywords: SeqCode; amendments; paratypes.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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