Tags: Bacteria.

GFAJ-1 is a strain of rod-shaped bacteria in the family Halomonadaceae. The extremophile was isolated from the hypersaline and alkaline Mono Lake in eastern California by a research team led by NASA astrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon. In a 2010 Science journal publication the authors claimed that the microbe when starved of phosphorus is capable of substituting arsenic for a small percentage of its phosphorus and sustain its growth.

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class
Gammaproteobacteria
色名
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domain
Bacteria
family
Halomonadaceae
order
Oceanospirillales
phylum
Proteobacteria

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