Photosynthesis was well-established on the earth at least 3.5 thousand million years ago,
and it is widely believed that these ancient organisms had similar metabolic capabilities to …

Photosynthesis is an ancient process on Earth. Chemical evidence and recent fossil finds
indicate that cyanobacteria existed 2.5–2.6 billion years (Ga) ago, and these were certainly …

Photosynthesis is a complex metabolic process that originated on the early Earth. Recently
reported evidence based on the molecular evolutionary analysis of the chlorophyll …

In this review, I reexamine the origin and diversification of photochemical reaction centers
based on the known phylogenetic relations of the core subunits, and with the aid of …

To understand the evolution of photosynthetic bacteria it is necessary to understand how the
main groups within Bacteria have evolved from a common ancestor, a critical issue that has …

The presence of shared conserved insertions or deletions in proteins (referred to as
signature sequences) provides a powerful means to deduce the evolutionary relationships …

Sequence alignments between membrane-spanning segments of pheophytin-quinone-type
photosynthetic reaction centers, FeS-type photosynthetic reaction centers, core chlorophyll …

Experimental evidence for a new model of the structure of the photosystem two reaction
centre of oxygenic organisms is rapidly accumulating and is being extended to incorporate …

▪ Abstract The origin of photosynthesis is a fundamental biological question that has eluded
researchers for decades. The complexity of the origin and evolution of photosynthesis is a …

Photosynthesis: Photobiochemistry and Photobiophysics is the first single-authored book in
the Advances in Photosynthesis Series. It provides an overview of the light reactions and …