Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes

Part I. Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Diversity

1. Diversity of the Cyanobacteria
Petr Dvořák, Dale A. Casamatta, Petr Hašler, Eva Jahodářová, Alyson R. Norwich, Aloisie Poulíčková

2. Diversity of Anaerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Purple Bacteria
Johannes F. Imhoff

3. A Panoply of Phototrophs: An Overview of the Thermophilic Chlorophototrophs of the Microbial Mats of Alkaline Siliceous Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
Marcus Tank, Vera Thiel, David M. Ward, Donald A. Bryant

4. The Chlorobiaceae, Chloroflexaceae, and Heliobacteriaceae

Michael T. Madigan, Nicole A. Vander Schaaf, W. Matthew Sattley

5. Phototrophic Gemmatimonadetes: A New “Purple” Branch on the Bacterial Tree of Life
Yonghui Zeng, Michal Koblížek

6. Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Four Decades of Mystery
Vladimir Yurkov, Elizabeth Hughes

Part II. Environment and Ecology

7. Desert Crusts
Patrick C. Hallenbeck

8. Cyanobacteria in Terrestrial Symbiotic Systems
Jouko Rikkinen

9. Phototrophic Microbial Mats
Lucas J. Stal, Henk Bolhuis, Mariana Silvia Cretoiu

Part III. Bioremediation, Secondary Metabolites and Other Applied Aspects

10. Photosynthetic Purple Non Sulfur Bacteria in Hydrogen Producing Systems: New Approaches in the Use of Well Known and Innovative Substrates
Alessandra Adessi, Elisa Corneli, Roberto Philippis

11. Engineering Cyanobacteria for Biofuel Production
Rui Miao, Adam Wegelius, Claudia Durall, Feiyan Liang, Namita Khanna, Peter Lindblad

12. Engineering Photosynthetic α-Proteobacteria for the Production of Recombinant Proteins and Terpenoids
Achim Heck, Thomas Drepper

13. Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria from Extreme Environments
Johannes F. Imhoff

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