Genera named after persons D-J
Taxon names are frequently derived from personal names to honour persons, particularly persons associated with microbiology. Names of genera can be formed from latinized personal names. They usually end in -a and are in the feminine gender [Recommendation 10a (2)] and sometimes are a diminutive (ending in -ella ). A part of the genus names found in LPSN and unambiguously derived from a personal name (or derived in the same way from the name of a location or, rarely, another kind of entity) are listed below, arranged by the name of the person or location or other entity to which they are referring. See also the LPSN introductory page on forming names .
Daegu
Daejeon
Dakar
Dakota
Dalmatia
Dankook
Dasan
Dawid
Deianira
De Ley
Delft
Dellaglio
Demeter
Derx
Desikachary
Desmarest
Desnues
De Vos
Devriese
DFG
Dickey
Dielmo
Dietz
Dillwyn
Dokdo
Dong
Donghae
Dongsha
Doolittle
Dore
Drancourt
Drouet
DSMZ
Dubos
Duffy
Dugan
Duncan
Dwayne Savage
Dye
Dzens-Litovskij
Eckstein
Edwards
Eggerth
Ehrlich
Eiken
Eione
Eisenberg
Elaine
Electryone
Eliora
Elizabeth O. King
Elke Lang
Elster
Embley
Eoetvoes
ERC
Ernst
Erwin
Escherich
Eudora
Euzeby
Evans
Ewamian
Ewing
Ezaki
Facklam
Falkow
Falsen
Fang
Fanny Hesse
Feifan
Fei-Fan Tang
Fenollar
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn (sic)
Filarszky
Finegold
Finnia
Fischer
Flinders
Fokin
Forterre
Fournier
Francis
Frank
Franklin
Franzmann
Frateur
Frederiksen
Friedmann
Frisch
Fritsche
Fuchs
Fudan
Fuerst
Fukatsu
Fulbright
Fumi
Futian
Gabon
Gaia
Galene
Gallion
Gandjar
Gangjin
Garcia
Gardner
Garrity
Geddes
Ge Hong
Geitler
Gellert
Gelre
Geojedo
Georgen
Georg Fuchs
Ghiorse
Gibbs
Giblin
Giesberger
Gilliam
Gillis
Gimesi
Gist Brocades factory
Glaesser
Gleim
Godlewski
Godley
Goeker
Goertz
Gomont
Goodfellow
Gordon
Gorgyra
Gortz
Gottfried
Gottschalk
Govan
Graham
Gram
Grell
Grimont
Gromov
Gudong
Guggenheim
Gu Haiying
Gui Ye
Gulbenkian
Gullan
Guoping
Guy Parker
Gyeongsang National University
Gygaia
Hafkine
Hafnia
Hah
Hakuba
Halie
Hall
Haller
Halpern
Hamada
Hanam
Handel
Hankyong
Hans Guyot
Hans Schlegel
Hans Trueper
Hao-Ran Jian
Harry James Flint
Hassall
Hatepuna
Hatheway
Hazen
Hecate
Heilong
Helle
Helmut Koenig
Hennig
Henrici
Hephaestus
Herelle
Heritage
Hespell
Heyndrickx
Hillbricht
Hilse
Hippe
Hirsch
Hoagland
Hodgkin
Hoefle
Holdeman
Hollande
Holt
Holzapfel
Hong
Hoppe
Hornef
Howard
Howie
Hoyles
Hoyos
Huai-Shu
Hua-Kui Chen
Huanghe
HUFS
Hugenholtz
Hugon
Hungate
Hutson
Hwangdo
Hwanghae
Hy
Hylemon
Hyun-Soon Lee
Ialomitza
IAM
Ideon
Ignatz Rudolph Schiner
Imhoff
Imtech
IMTECH
Inha
INMI RAN
IOCAS
Isachenko
Ishikawa
Iyengar
Izhaki
Jacksonville
Jahn
Jannasch
Jeju
Jejudo
Jeongeup
Jetten
Jezbera
Jhaorih
Ji
Jiang
Jidong Wang
Jilun
Jindo
Jingyao
Jin-Xing Lu
Jisheng
Johansen
Johnson
John William Evans
Jones
Jongsik Chun
Jonquet
Jooste
J. Peter W. Young
Jutong
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