What job can a bug give? A controversy over the arsenic-guzzling bacterium cultured by NASA

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Protein Cell ›› 2011, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (4) : 261-263. DOI: 10.1007/s13238-011-1044-z

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What job can a bug give? A controversy over the arsenic-guzzling bacterium cultured by NASA

Mingwei Sun^1,2, Christopher J. Vavricka¹, Baoli Zhu¹()

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Mingwei Sun, Christopher J. Vavricka, Baoli Zhu. What job can a bug give? A controversy over the arsenic-guzzling bacterium cultured by NASA. Prot Cell, 2011, 2(4): 261‒263 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13238-011-1044-z

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