Zhu, Rixiang


Publications
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Origin of microbial biomineralization and magnetotaxis during the Archean

Citation
Lin et al. (2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (9)
Names
“Magnetominusculus”
Abstract
Significance A wide range of organisms sense Earth’s magnetic field for navigation. For some organisms, like magnetotactic bacteria, magnetic particles form inside cells and act like a compass. However, the origin of magnetotactic behavior remains a mystery. We report that magnetotaxis evolved in bacteria during the Archean, before or near the divergence between the Nitrospirae and Proteobacteria phyla, suggesting that magnet