Table of Contents

1. Genome evolution of photosynthetic bacteria
2. Molecular markers for Photosynthetic Bacteria and Insights Provided by them into the Origin of Photosynthesis
3. Properties and evolutionary implications of the heliobacterial genome
4. The phylum Chlorobi
5. Evolution of photosynthesis suspected from genome comparisons in purple bacteria
6. The Living Genome of a Purple Nonsulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium: Overview of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Transcriptome
7. Evolution of light-harvesting genes in the purple bacteria
8. The role and evolution of endogenous plasmids in photosynthetic bacteria
9. Evolution of  bacteriophytochrome function in bacteria
10. Iron homeostasis features in purple non-sulfur bacteria
11. Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs
12. Evolution of marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria as seen from their diverse arrangements of photosynthesis gene clusters  
13. Regressive evolution of photosynthesis in marine Roseobacters