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Sun, M., Vavricka, C.J. & Zhu, B. What job can a bug give? A controversy over the arsenic-guzzling bacterium cultured by NASA. Protein Cell 2, 261–263 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13238-011-1044-z
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