Chemist Steven A. Benner has expressed doubts that arsenate has replaced phosphate in the DNA of this organism.
GFAJ-1 |
Geomicrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon with a NASA funded team is researching a particular strain the Halomonadaceae family, named GFAJ-1, isolated and cultured from sediments collected along the shore of Mono Lake, near Yosemite National Park in eastern California.