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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Magnetotaxis in an anaerobic ciliate via tripartite syntrophy.

Mitali Chitnis, Leon Kaub, Peter Vďačný, Lisa M Beiers, Sebastian Sturm, Ömer K Coskun, Daniel B Mills, Gonzalo V Gomez-Saez, Larissa Mengue, Klaus-Dirk Gottschaldt and 5 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Magnetotaxis in an anaerobic ciliate via tripartite syntrophy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Mitali Chitnis *Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-6350-5921
Leon Kaub *Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8855-2832
Peter VďačnýDepartment of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava 842 15, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0003-4877-0234
Lisa M BeiersDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geomaterials and Crystallography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0533-3675
Sebastian SturmDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 81377, Germany.
Ömer K CoskunDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.
Daniel B MillsDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2565-6933
Gonzalo V Gomez-SaezDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6308-5764
Larissa MengueAgence Gabonaise d'Etudes et d'Observations Spatiales, Libreville 3850, Gabon.
Klaus-Dirk GottschaldtDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen 82234, Germany.
Stuart A GilderDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8724-7812
Tomáš ObertDepartment of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava 842 15, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-6999-7289
Ivan RurikDepartment of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava 842 15, Slovakia.ORCID 0009-0001-4911-6624
Elena V SturmDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geomaterials and Crystallography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.
William D OrsiDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5942-2852

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) OR417/9-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Magnetotaxis has evolved independently numerous times in bacteria, whereby genetically controlled biomineralization of nano-crystalline magnets results in swimming along Earth's magnetic field lines. Compared to magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), evolutionary mechanisms of magnetotaxis as a trait in eukaryotes remain poorly understood. Here, we report a magnetotactic ciliate,

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CiliophoraDeltaproteobacteriaMagnetosomesAnaerobiosisFerrosoferric OxidePhylogenyFerrosoferric Oxideciliatemagnetotactic bacteriamagnetotaxisprotistsyntrophy

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PMID42475569
PMCPMC13416559

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