A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6034, 2011, Pages 1163-1166

  Wolfe Simon, Felisa ^a,b   Blum, Jodi Switzer ^b   Kulp, Thomas R ^b   Gordon, Gwyneth W ^c   Hoeft, Shelley E ^b   Pett Ridge, Jennifer ^d   Stolz, John F ^e   Webb, Samuel M ^f   Weber, Peter K ^d   Davies, Paul C W ^a,g   Anbar, Ariel D ^a,c,g   Oremland, Ronald S ^b  

^a NASA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUCLEIC ACID; PERIODICITY; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HALOMONADACEAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ARSENATES; ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALIFORNIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOMONADACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, SECONDARY ION; VACUOLES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; MONO LAKE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONADACEAE;

EID: 79957945423     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197258     Document Type: Article

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