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8 - Magnetotactic Bacteria and Magnetosomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2019

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Dennis A. Bazylinski  and
Denis Trubitsyn
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Nicholas J. Darton
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Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biosensing and Medicine , pp. 251 - 284
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