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When separated from the substrate, Blakemore’s mud bacteria swim back to the bottom of the sea following the earth’s magnetic field lines. Their magnetotactic response appears to be due to the presence of internal ferromagnetic dipole moments of single-domain properties.
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Blakemore, R.P.: Magnetotactic bacteria. Science 190, 377–379 (1975)
Kalmijn, A.J., Blakemore, R.P.: Geomagnetic orientation in marine mud bacteria. Proc. Int. Union Physiol, Sci. 13, 364 (1977)
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Kalmijn, A.J., Blakemore, R.P. (1978). The Magnetic Behavior of Mud Bacteria. In: Schmidt-Koenig, K., Keeton, W.T. (eds) Animal Migration, Navigation, and Homing. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11147-5_35
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