Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria contains detailed cross referencing of subjects while covering important areas including photosynthesis and anoxygenic phototropic bacteria; systematics and characteristic of each taxon; ecology and cultivation; photosynthetic electron transfer systems; metabolism; pigments and lipids; light-harvesting systems and reaction centers; photosynthetic genes and regulation of gene expression; origin and evolution of photosynthesis; and utilization of anoxygenic phototropic bacteria.