Resumen de Life on Phosphite: A Metagenomics Tale

Yunuen Tapia Torres, Gabriela Olmedo Alvarez

• 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.