Magnetic properties of uncultivated magnetotactic bacteria and their contribution to a stratified estuary iron cycle

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, A P ^a,i   Berounsky, V M ^b   Chan, M K ^c   Blackford, M G ^d   Cady, C ^e   Moskowitz, B M ^c   Kraal, P ^f   Lima, E A ^g   Kopp, R E ^h   Lumpkin, G R ^d   Weiss, B P ^g   Hesse, P ^a   Vella, N G F ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Rutgers University   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MAGNETITE; GREIGITE; SULFIDE;

IRON; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETITE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEOGENE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PALEOMAGNETISM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BLACK SEA; ESTUARY; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOSSIL; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROSCOPY; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BLACK SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BLACK SEA; ESTUARIES; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETOSOMES; SULFIDES;

EID: 84907308576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5797     Document Type: Article

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