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Magnetite and magnetotaxis in microorganisms
1Department of Physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407.
Bioelectromagnetics
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Magnetotactic bacteria from freshwater and marine sediments orient and navigate along geomagnetic field lines. Their magnetotactic response is based on intracellular, single magnetic domains of ferrimagnetic magnetite, which impart a permanent magnetic dipole moment to the cell.