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- noun biology A
membranous prokaryotic organelle , containingmineral crystals , present inmagnetotactic bacteria
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This genetic element, termed the magnetosome island
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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This genetic element, termed the magnetosome island
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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I know that the AH-84001 group recently reexamined the magnetite crystals that may be putative fossil crystals from martian magnetosome analogs.
New Findings Say Mars Methane Comes from Life or Water — or Both | Universe Today 2009
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Biological magnetites tend to have a normal distribution with a truncation, as they grow in biological organisms that tend to have a normal size distribution when they die and moreover are inhibited in growth when they hit the magnetosome membrane.
New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life | Universe Today 2009
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Given the lack of such a complex, and the lack of associative learning, magnetosome bacteria cannot, on Dretske's view, rightly be regarded as literally possessing full-fledged beliefs.
Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006
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Lin W, Meyerdierks A, Kube M, Katzmann E, et al. (2009) Toward cloning of the magnetotactic metagenome: identification of magnetosome island gene clusters in uncultivated magnetotactic bacteria from different aquatic sediments.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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Boxed gene names are the mam genes belonging to the AMB-1 magnetosome island.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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The newly annotated genes are clustered in a genomic islet distinct and distant from the known magnetosome genomic island and most probably acquired by lateral gene transfer rather than duplication.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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A large genomic island, conserved among magnetotactic bacteria, contains the genes potentially involved in magnetosome formation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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MamK and MamJ are involved in magnetosome alignment, MamE is a predicted serine protease
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010
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