1. Magnetic Navigation in Bacteria.
- Author
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Blakemore, Richard P. and Frankel, Richard B.
- Subjects
AQUATIC microbiology ,AQUATIC organisms ,AQUATIC biology ,MAGNETIC fields ,BACTERIA - Abstract
The article reports on the study which found that certain aquatic bacteria are magnetotatic. They tend to swim along magnetic field lines and are accordingly influenced by the earth's magnetic field. According to the study, the magnetotatic bacteria synthesize and thereafter carry within them small crystals of magnetite, the oxide of iron know to early navigators as lodestone.
- Published
- 1981
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