I'm taking a microbial physiology course and we noted that, while some archaea are phototrophic, there are no known photosynethetic archaea. Are there any physiological characteristics that make archaea less suited for photosynthesis? Or is it simply a matter of there likely being photosynthetic archaea, but they have not yet been found (which seems like it could easily be the case, given that there are many extremophilic archaea)?
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