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Enrichment, Purification and Characterization of Environmental Magnetotactic Bacteria

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Although magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are ubiquitous in various aquatic or sedimentary environments, the majority of them are still unculturable. One of the most intriguing properties of MTB, in contrast to other bacteria, is their ability to swim along the magnetic field lines, which provides an opportunity to enrich and purify uncultivated MTB cells directly from environmental samples.

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Lin, W. (2013). Enrichment, Purification and Characterization of Environmental Magnetotactic Bacteria. In: Diversity, Biomineralization and Rock Magnetism of Magnetotactic Bacteria. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38262-8_2

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