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Four taxonomic groups of classical prokaryotes and one group of archaebacteria (Woese, Magrum, and Fox, 1978) can convert light energy into chemical-bond energy. They belong to three functional categories, in terms of the photochemical mechanisms involved (Table 1).
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Stanier, R.Y., Pfennig, N., Trüper, H.G. (1981). Introduction to the Phototrophic Prokaryotes. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_7
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