Longstanding mystery of phosphite solved with help of sewage plant

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Source: University of Konstanz

Biologists have discovered a phosphorus-based bacterial metabolism that is both new and ancient, thanks to a calculation from the 1980s, a sewage plant, a new bacterial organism, and a remnant from around 2.5 billion years ago.

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