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. 2018 Mar;26(3):170-172.
doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2018.01.002. Epub 2018 Feb 3.

Life on Phosphite: A Metagenomics Tale

Yunuen Tapia-Torres  1 , Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez  2
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Life on Phosphite: A Metagenomics Tale

Yunuen Tapia-Torres et al. Trends Microbiol. 2018 Mar.

Abstract

Phosphite, a species of phosphorus in a P3+ oxidation state, is believed to have played an important role in the primordial Earth. Figueroa et al. used metagenomics to uncover anaerobic bacterial communities from waste water waste sludge that sustain life from energy provided by phosphite.

Keywords: dissimilatory phosphite oxidation; metagenomics; phosphite; phosphorus; reduction–oxidation.

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