Trajectories (IMAGE)

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Trajectories

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These are trajectories of magnetotactic bacteria swimming the rotating magnetic field generated by the Smid et al tool. The bacteria were viewed using a light microscope. The bar in the lower right section of the photograph represents 100 micrometers.

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Pieter Smid/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

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