Intracellular biomineralization in bacteria

Front Microbiol. 2014 Jun 12:5:293. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00293. eCollection 2014.

¹ Biogeomagnetism Group, Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; France-China Bio-Mineralization and Nano-Structures Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
² Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, CNRS UMR 7590, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IRD UMR 206 Paris, France.
³ Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam, Germany.

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Keywords: ancient environment; biosignature; iron cycling; magnetosome; magnetotactic bacteria; magnetotaxis; microbial biomineralization.