Magnetosymbiosis discovery: new perspectives in magnetotaxis research

Caroline L. MONTEIL; Christopher T. LEFEVRE

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Biology | Updated：2025-02-19

- Magnetosymbiosis discovery: new perspectives in magnetotaxis research
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 43, Issue 1, Pages: 177-186(2025)
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  Aix-Marseille Université, CEA, CNRS, Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnologies of Aix-Marseille, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance 13115, France
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  christopher.lefevre@cea.fr
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- Received：05 January 2024，
  
  Published：01 January 2025
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MONTEIL Caroline L.,LEFEVRE Christopher T..Magnetosymbiosis discovery: new perspectives in magnetotaxis research[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2025,43(01):177-186.
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MONTEIL Caroline L.,LEFEVRE Christopher T..Magnetosymbiosis discovery: new perspectives in magnetotaxis research[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2025,43(01):177-186. DOI：

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Magnetotactic bacteria have been the only known magnetoreceptive microorganisms for decades. Even if the existence of magnetotactic protists was suggested in 1986

this is only 30 years later that magnetotaxis was extended to the domain of Eukaryota

thanks to the characterization of magnetotactic symbiotic assemblies composed of a flagellated protist and bacteria biomineralizing magnetic crystals. Their mutualistic ectosymbiosis relies on a collective magnetotaxis coupled to a hydrogen-based syntrophy. This new form of cooperation challenges our view of magnetic biomineralization in prokaryotes and magnetoreception in eukaryotes. In this review

we present how magnetosymbiosis was discovered and how cooperation functions. Finally

we discuss the future research and the new perspectives such discovery brought to the field of magnetotaxis.

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