Biomineralization and magnetism of bacterial magnetosomes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2563-2568

  Pan, Yongxin ^a   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Liu, Qingsong ^a,b   Petersen, Nikolai ^c   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Magnetic properties; Magnetofossil; Magnetosome of magnetotactic bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33749682953     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982004-153     Document Type: Review

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