By April 8, 2000 the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature committee published their “first draft” of the new “PhyloCode: A Phylogenetic Code of Biological Nomenclature” as they deemed the current Linnaean system unable to accomodated “clades“. The new PhyloCode included a provision for “Hybrids“. This lays out the rules which taxonomists use to classify organisms, which now includes gene manipulated, chimeric organisms. [1, 2]
By definition a “hybrid formula” is “An expression consisting of the names of two taxa separated by a multiplication sign, designating a single organism or set of organisms of hybrid origin.” [3, 4]
If part of a virus genome (via mRNA vaccine) incorporates (transfects) into the human genome, does that make that human a hybrid?