Zavarzinia

Za.var.zi' ni.a. M.L. n. Zavarzinia named for Georgi Alexandrovich Zavarzin, the Russian microbiologist who with his co‐workers made the first thorough investigation of mesophilic, Gram‐negative carboxidotrophic strains. Proteobacteria / Alphaproteobacteria / Rhodospirillales / Acetobacteraceae / Zavarzinia The genus description is the same as the description for Zavarzinia compransoris . The mol % G + C of the DNA is : 66.1. Type species : Zavarzinia compransoris (ex Nozhevnikova and Zavarzin 1974) Meyer, Stackebrandt and Auling 1994, 182 (Effective publication: Meyer, Stackebrandt and Auling 1993, 393.)