Morphological features of elongated-anisotropic magnetosome crystals in magnetotactic bacteria of the Nitrospirae phylum and the Deltaproteobacteria class

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 194-200

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a,e   Pósfai, Mihály ^b   Abreu, Fernanda ^c   Lins, Ulysses ^c   Frankel, Richard B ^d   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Magnetite; Magnetofossil; Magnetosome; Magnetotactic bacteria

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVENESS; CONTROL MECHANISM; CRYSTAL HABITS; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; MAGNETITE CRYSTALS; MAGNETIZATION AXIS; MAGNETOFOSSIL; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSOME CRYSTALS; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NITROSPIRAE PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCING;

BACTERIA; BIOMINERALIZATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALS; MAGNETITE; MORPHOLOGY; STRAIN;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMARKER; BIOMINERALIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALISMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSPIRAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 80054965709     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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