That is indeed an extreme example, given how matter of factly they teach transposons in molecular bio these days. When we couldn't get a paper published, my ol

That is indeed an extreme example, given how matter of factly they teach transposons in molecular bio these days. When we couldn't get a paper published, my old PI would always joke, "There's always BBRC!", referring to the journal biochemical and biophysical research communications. The impact factor was and still is quite low, and it would make the post docs bristle when he said it. But I once asked him, why BBRC? and he explained that Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Herschko published their first paper on ubiquitinylation (how proteins get tagged for degradation in the proteasome) in that journal [1,2]. It won them a Nobel prize 26 years later and exploded into a huge field. You just never know sometimes. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26325464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26325464/ [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006291X78912494 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006291X78... (The BBRC text is paywalled sorry)