"Navigational Compass in Magnetic Bacteria" by Richard B. Frankel and R. P. Blakemore
 

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Magnetotactic bacteria that orient and swim in a preferred direction in the geomagnetic field contain sufficient single domain magnetite to constitute a biomagnetic compass.

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