Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean

Arsenic-consuming microbes of the hypersaline Laguna La Brava in Chile may be an analogue for early life during the anoxic conditions of the Archean, according to geochemical and metagenomic analyses of the extant microbial mats

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pieter T. Visscher, Kimberley L. Gallagher, Anthony Bouton, Maria E. Farias, Daniel Kurth, Maria Sancho-Tomás, Pascal Philippot, Andrea Somogyi, Kadda Medjoubi, Emmanuelle Vennin, Raphaël Bourillot, Malcolm R. Walter, Brendan P. Burns, Manuel Contreras, Christophe Dupraz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00025-2