Spatial arrangement of chains of magnetosomes in magnetotactic bacteria

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 125-134

  Hanzlik, Marianne ^a   Winklhofer, Michael ^a   Petersen, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Magnetic properties; TEM data

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETOSOME;

EID: 0030441199     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00191-4     Document Type: Article

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