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Taxonomic differentiation of phototrophic purple and green bacteria has been achieved on the basis of a number of morphological properties like form, size, flagellation and internal membrane structures of the cells, pigment composition, DNA base ratio, and also by physiological properties tike carbon and nitrogen substrate utilization, ability of aerobic and anaerobic growth in the dark, tolerance of and oxidation products of sulfide and thiosulfate, and others (Pfennig and Truper, 1974). From these properties anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria have long been recognized as a very heterogeneous group.
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Imhoff, J.F. (1988). Lipids, Fatty Acids and Quinones in Taxonomy And Phylogeny of Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria. In: Olson, J.M., Ormerod, J.G., Amesz, J., Stackebrandt, E., Trüper, H.G. (eds) Green Photosynthetic Bacteria. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1021-1_27
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