On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 11:03, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> wrote:
When a group of microbiologists decided to name a symbiotic bacterium
_Midichloria_ there was some resistance: not everyone is in favor of Star
Wars-based names. But genus _Midichloria_ went ahead (named 2006).
Probably more a matter of Star Wars fans not being in favour of midi-chlorians!