This work represents a concise scientific summary of the latest results of scientific research on phototrophic prokaryotes. It covers in depth the huge variety of bacteria capable of utilizing light as their energy source, all aspects of structure and development, genetics and molecular biology, experimental and physiological ecology and taxonomy, and metabolism and bioenergetics.
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