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This thesis focuses on improving our knowledge on the diversity, distribution, genomic information, and magnetic properties of magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), which are a diverse group of microorganisms synthesized intracellular magnetic minerals of magnetite (Fe3O4) and/or greigite (Fe3S4) magnetosomes. MTB not only play significant roles in global iron cycling and bulk magnetic signals of sediments, but also are a perfect model system to study fundamental and general biomineralization mechanisms.
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Lin, W. (2013). Concluding Remarks. In: Diversity, Biomineralization and Rock Magnetism of Magnetotactic Bacteria. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38262-8_6
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