Crystal habits and magnetic microstructures of magnetosomes in coccoid magnetotactic bacteria

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 463-474

  Lins, Ulysses ^a   McCartney, Martha R ^b   Farina, Marcos ^a   Frankel, Brichard B ^c   Buseck, Peter R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution transmission electron microscopy; Magnetite; Magnetotaxis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA;

EID: 33748556885     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 00013765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652006000300007     Document Type: Article

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