purple bacteria
English
Noun
- The proteobacteria that produce their own food using photosynthesis, with colors including purple, red, brown, and orange.
Hyponyms
- (photosynthesizing proteobacteria): purple sulfur bacteria (order Chromatiales), purple non-sulfur bacteria (orders Rhodospirillales and Rhizobiales and families Lua error in Module:parameters at line 806: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., Rhodocyclaceae, and Comamonadaceae)
Further reading
purple bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
