[Taxacom] Drosophila melanogaster name change?

[David Remsen (GBIF)]

While the sample size is smaller the uBioRSS application ranks the top- 
cited species in any taxonomic group in 155,000+ articles published by  
a large set (~1000) academic journals.   The entire Catalogue of Life  
forms the set of matched names.     An expanded version of this with  
more journal sources and perhaps a few other database RSS feeds would  
probably provide a more relevant ranking.

http://www.ubio.org/rss/     (be prepared for slow performance)

For all organisms the ranking is

1) Escherichia coli
2) Arabidopsis thaliana
3) Drosophila melanogaster
4) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
5) Homo sapiens
6) Caenorhabditis elegans
7) Zea mays
8) Pseudomonas aeruginosa
9) Glycine max
10) Oryza sativa

For the insects it is

1) Drosophila melanogaster
2) Apis mellifera
3) Anopheles gambiae
4) Aedes albopictus
5) Bombyx mori
6) Manduca sexta
7) Drosophila simulans
8) Plutella xylostella
9) Myzus persicae
10) Culex quinquefasciatus

For plants it is

1) Arabidopsis thaliana
2) Zea mays
3) Triticum aestivum
4) Oryza sativa
5) Glycine max
6) Brassica napus
7) Hordeum vulgare
8) Phaseolus vulgaris
9) Gossypium hirsutum
10) Medicago sativa


Thanks again to Rod Page for the concept idea back in 2005.   The app  
is quite slow and sorely in need of an upgrade which is only now  
getting some attention.

David R


On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Neal Evenhuis wrote:

> At 2:11 PM -1000 4/15/10, Francisco Welter-Schultes wrote:
>>
>> I cannot say which is the "highest studied" organism, but I did a
>> quick research in Google for the most frequently mentioned organisms.
>>
>> Homo sapiens		25.100.000
>> Escherichia coli 	8.350.000
>> Mus musculus		4.110.000
>> Caenorhabditis elegans	1.720.000
>> Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.710.000
>> Trypanosoma brucei	2.570.000
>> Arabidopsis thaliana 	2.000.000
>> Oryza sativa		1.720.000
>> Drosophila melanogaster 1.550.000
>> Zea mays		1.550.000
>> Tyrannosaurus rex	  985.000
>> Rattus norvegicus	939.000
>> Bos taurus		913.000
>> Xenopus laevis		884.000
>> Aedes aegypti		826.000
>> Plasmodium falciparum	819.000
>>
>> I did not find any other name above 600.000.
>> Drosophila melanogaster ranks at number 9.
>>
>
> Francisco,
>
> I'd be interested in your search protocol as I believe you just
> "thought" of a name that would rank high and searched. As such it is
> a flawed method for getting the "true" most frequently mentioned
> organisms. One would need a database of *all* genus-species
> combinations and run it against all the Google pages to come up with
> a more complete listing.
>
> Anyway, I had some fun with this did the same "think of a good name"
> method and found the following (above 600,000) that were missed
> (thus: no doubt there are obviously more).
>
> Bacillus subtilis         1,680.000
> Streptococcus pneumoniae  1.110.000
> Canis familiaris          872.000
> Homo erectus              868.000
> Apis mellifera            851.000
> Bacillus cereus           605.000
>
> Drosophila melangoaster now drops to 10th.
>
> BTW: my search on Homo sapiens found 26,300.000 hits, so in just that
> short amount of time between your search and my search, 1.2 million
> more pages were added to the web with the string "Homo sapiens"!
>
> -Neal
>
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