Figure 1.

A schematic diagram presenting the various categories of magnetotactic bacteria (blue background), species of magnetotactic bacteria belonging to Alphaproteobacteria that can be amplified in specific growth media (dark apple green background), species of magnetotactic bacteria belonging to Alphaproteobacteria that can be amplified in specific growth media and can produce more than 10 mg of magnetosomes per liter of growth medium (yellow green background), MSR-1 specie belonging to Alphaproteobacteria that can be amplified in specific growth media, can produce more than 10 mg of magnetosomes per liter of growth medium, and can be amplified in minimal growth media not containing peptone, yeast extract, toxic CMR products, and heavy metals.