@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001699, author = "Oren, Aharon", title = "Proposal to modify Rule 12c of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2017", volume = "67", number = "3", pages = "761-762", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001699", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001699", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "species names", keywords = "ICNP", keywords = "grammatical case", abstract = "According to the current version of Rule 12c of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, one of the ways in which a specific epithet can be treated is as an adjective that must agree in gender with the generic name. I propose emending this part of Rule 12c to specify that such adjectives must be in the singular form in the nominative case.", }