Purple bacteria taxonomy

Imhoff, J. F. 1995. Taxonomy and physiology of phototrophic purple bacteria and green sulfur bacteria, p. 1-15. In Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria. Blakenship, R. E., Madi-gan, M. T., and Bauer, C. E. (eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. 

According to modern taxonomy, four divisions of photosynthetic bacteria are discerned (1) the purple bacteria, the green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae), the green filamentous (or gliding) bacteria (Chloroflexaceae) and the heliobacteria. This contribution concerns the antenna properties of the last three groups groups which have been studied less extensively than the purple bacteria, but which are not less interesting from the scientific point of view. 

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