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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Origin of microbial biomineralization and magnetotaxis during the Archean.

Wei Lin, Greig A Paterson, Qiyun Zhu, Yinzhao Wang, Evguenia Kopylova, Ying Li, Rob Knight, Dennis A Bazylinski, Rixiang Zhu, Joseph L Kirschvink and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Magnetochrome-catalyzed oxidation of ferrous iron by MamP enables magnetite crystal growth in the magnetotactic bacterium AMB-1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  14. Primordial magnetotaxis in putative giant paleoproterozoic magnetofossils.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Wei LinKey Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; weilin0408@gmail.com kirschvink@caltech.edu yxpan@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4075-7414
Greig A PatersonKey Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
Qiyun ZhuGenomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.ORCID 0000-0002-3568-6271
Yinzhao WangKey Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
Evguenia KopylovaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Ying LiCollege of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Rob KnightDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Dennis A BazylinskiSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004.
Rixiang ZhuState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
Joseph L KirschvinkDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; weilin0408@gmail.com kirschvink@caltech.edu yxpan@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.
Yongxin PanKey Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; weilin0408@gmail.com kirschvink@caltech.edu yxpan@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of California San Diego · USChina Agricultural University · CNJ. Craig Venter Institute · USTokyo Institute of Technology · JPUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes that synthesize minerals, a process known as microbial biomineralization, contributed substantially to the evolution of current planetary environments through numerous important geochemical processes. Despite its geological significance, the origin and evolution of microbial biomineralization remain poorly understood. Through combined metagenomic and phylogenetic analyses of deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria from the

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Biological EvolutionGenome, BacterialPhylogenyBacterial ProteinsBayes TheoremGene ExpressionMagnetic FieldsMagnetosomesProteobacteriaTaxis ResponseBacterial ProteinsArcheangeodynamomagnetotactic bacteriamagnetotaxismicrobial biomineralization

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PMID28193877
PMCPMC5338559
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