Ecology, Diversity, and Evolution of Magnetotactic Bacteria
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...Magnetosomes are specialized organelles with narrow size (50-70 nm in diameter), uniform morphology and low toxicity; they have evolved from magnetotactic bacteria and are composed of a lipid bilayer surrounding magnetic iron-containing minerals [8-10]....
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...MTB are distributed worldwide, having been found on all continents, and are ubiquitous in sediments of freshwater, brackish, marine, and hypersaline habitats as well as in chemically stratified water columns of these environments (1)....
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...Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are aquatic prokaryotes whose direction of motility is directed by the Earth’s geomagnetic and externally applied magnetic fields (1)....
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...Although magnetosome magnetite and greigite crystals can have different morphologies, mature crystals of both minerals generally lie within the singlemagnetic-domain size range, about 35 to 120 nm, in which they have the highest possible magnetic moment per unit volume (1)....
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