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Chemical-Shuttling Bacteria Follow Earth’s Magnetic Field

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Magnetotactic bacteria shunt sulfur, nitrogen, and other important elements between oxygen-poor and oxygen-rich waters.

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Magnetoreception is not restricted to prokaryotic bacteria but also occurs in eukaryotic organisms including fish and mammals, intimating that it developed at an early stage in the evolution of all living things.3 Speculating on the earliest of geological times, what if magnetism not only evolved in some universal common ancestor (LUCA) but was itself the only reason the very first protocells formed, transmuting through natural selection from the abiotic to life?1 This piece explores the possibility that magnetism is crucial for the self-organization of abiotic protocells into living matter.
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