Magnetite in Freshwater Magnetotactic Bacteria
Abstract
A previously undescribed magnetotactic spirillum isolated from a freshwater swamp was mass cultured in the magnetic as well as the nonmagnetic state in chemically defined culture media. Results of Mossbauer spectroscopic analysis applied to whole cells identifies magnetite as a constituent of these magnetic bacteria.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.203.4387.1355
- Bibcode:
- 1979Sci...203.1355F