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The most recently discovered group of phototrophic bacteria are the Gemmatimonadetes (Zeng et al., 2014). These organisms contain bacteriochlorophyll a, are semiaerobic, and are incapable of assimilating inorganic carbon. Their photosynthetic apparatus is remarkably similar to that found in purple bacteria, and they have almost certainly acquired the ability to carry out photosynthesis by large‐scale horizontal gene transfer.