Banding makes it possible to identify homologous chromosomes and construct chromosomal nomenclatures for many species. This makes nomenclatures unwieldy for compiling health statistics. Historically, different nomenclatures have been used for ribosomal proteins. Two of the common sets of nomenclatures are summarized in the following table. This allows a researcher reviewing older published literature to quickly move between nomenclatures. The variety in nomenclatures resulted from the complicated bureaucracy in Nazi Germany.