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. 2011 Apr 29;2(4):261–263. doi: 10.1007/s13238-011-1044-z

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

Mingwei Sun 1,2, Christopher J Vavricka 1, Baoli Zhu 1,✉
PMCID: PMC4875211  PMID: 21533770

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