South-seeking magnetotactic bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5759, 2006, Pages 371-374

  Simmons, Sheri L ^a   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^b   Edwards, Katrina J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REDOX REACTIONS;

HEMISPHERE; INTRACELLULAR IRON CRYSTALS; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; VERTICAL CHEMICAL GRADIENTS;

BACTERIA;

OXYGEN;

BIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CRYSTAL; DESULFOBULBACEAE; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOGRAPHY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBULBACEAE; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 31144474304     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122843     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank P. Canovas and O. Rafie for field and lab assistance; R. Frankel, E. Webb, and S. Sievert for input on the manuscript; and K. Canter for use of a magnetometer. S.L.S. was partially supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. This work was partially funded by grants to S.L.S. and K.J.E. from the WHOI Reinhart Coastal Research Center, the WHOI Ocean Venture Fund, and the WHOI Ocean Life Institute. D.A.B. is supported by National Science Foundation grant EAR-0311950. GenBank sequence accession numbers for the sequences reported in this study are as follows. Group 1: BL_G6, DQ322653; 8L_H12, DQ322654; BL_H1, DQ322655; BL_H4, DQ322662, BL_H5, DQ322656; BL_C10, DQ322657; BL_C5, DQ322658. Group 2, south-seeking bacterium: BL_C2c, DQ322659; BL_E6c, DQ322660; BL_G11c, DQ322661.