Magnetotaxis is a process implemented by a diverse group of Gram-negative bacteria that involves orienting and coordinating movement in response to Earth's magnetic field.[1] This process is mainly carried out by microaerophilic and anaerobic bacteria found in aquatic environments such as salt marshes, seawater, and freshwater lakes.[2] By sensing the magnetic field, the bacteria are able to orient themselves towards environments with more favorable oxygen concentrations. This orientation towards more favorable oxygen concentrations allows the bacteria to reach these environments faster as opposed to random movement through Brownian motion.[3]
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the more favorable environment. Magnetotaxis has no impact on the average speed of the bacteria. However, magnetotaxis allows bacteria to guide their otherwise...
in response to the environment's magnetic characteristics is known as magnetotaxis. However, this term is misleading in that every other application of...
their capacity to orient themselves according to Earth's magnetic field, magnetotaxis. However, they are also impacted by artificial magnetic fields. This...
called taxes: these include chemotaxis, phototaxis, energy taxis, and magnetotaxis. In one peculiar group, the myxobacteria, individual bacteria move together...
glucose), aerotaxis (oxygen), phototaxis (light), thermotaxis (heat), and magnetotaxis (magnetic fields). The overall movement of a bacterium can be the result...
in response to the environment's magnetic characteristics is known as magnetotaxis. However, this term is misleading in that every other application of...
expansion of magnetotactic bacteria reveals an early common origin of magnetotaxis with lineage-specific evolution". The ISME Journal. 12 (6): 1508–1519...
along a light gradient (see phototaxis) along a magnetic field line (see magnetotaxis) along an electric field (see galvanotaxis) along the direction of the...
sense and align themselves along a magnetic field (magnetotaxis). The ecological role of magnetotaxis is unknown but is thought to be involved in the determination...
downwards as well as north or south, to return to the bottom of a pond (magnetotaxis). Similar magnetite chains found in Martian meteorites have been suggested...
for isolation of magnetic bacteria without magnetic collection using magnetotaxis". Journal of Microbiological Methods. 26 (1): 139–145. doi:10.1016/0167-7012(96)00905-0...
to be magnetically stable and to help optimize the MTB ability toward magnetotaxis. The single domain crystals have the maximum possible magnetic moment...
Araujo, F.; Pires, M.; Frankel, R.; Bicudo, C. (1986). "Magnetite and Magnetotaxis in Algae". Biophysical Journal. 50 (2): 375–378. Bibcode:1986BpJ....50...
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