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funny biological names - got any?

Ed Rybicki ed at micro.uct.ac.za
Wed Jan 19 16:13:40 EST 1994


...and then, of course, there are:

- odontoglossum ringspot virus
- cacao swollen shoot virus
- pea early browning virus
- barley yellow dwarf virus
- cadang-cadang viroid [of coconut palms - gets its name from the sound empty 
              coconuts make when they bang together]
- avocado sunblotch viroid
- subterranean clover stunt virus
- coconut foliar decay virus
- and my personal favourite, aphid lethal paralysis virus....

Enjoy.

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