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SUBMITTER: Zhang WY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623124 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Wen-Yan WY Zhou Ke K Pan Hong-Miao HM Du Hai-Jian HJ Chen Yi-Ran YR Zhang Rui R Ye Wanneng W Lu Chaojing C Xiao Tian T Wu Long-Fei LF
Applied and environmental microbiology 20130301 9
Novel large, rod-shaped magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) were discovered in intertidal sediments of the Yellow Sea, China. They biomineralized more than 300 rectangular magnetite magnetosomes per cell. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that they are affiliated with the Alphaproteobacteria and may represent a new genus of MTB. ...[more]