Electron spectroscopic imaging of magnetotactic bacteria: Magnetosome morphology and diversity

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 463-470

  Lins, Ulysses ^a   Freitas, Flávia ^a   Keim, Carolina N ^a   Farina, Marcos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electron spectroscopic imaging; Magnetosomes; Magnetotactic bacteria; Magnetotactic multicellular aggregates; Morphological classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039005906     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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