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dark hydrogen oxidation

traitmech:000131 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A metabolism in which an organism oxidizes molecular hydrogen as an electron donor for energy conservation independently of light.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02873
    hydrogen-oxidizing organisms play a key role in deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems as they can be considerably involved in light-independent primary biomass production

    Adam and Perner review hydrogen oxidation in deep-sea hydrothermal vents as a light-independent microbial energy metabolism.

Provenance

Identifier source
TraitMech local identifier
Definition source
DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

Parent traits (1)

Synonyms (1)

  • dark_hydrogen_oxidation RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

  1. · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex

    Proposed a DOI-backed FAPROTAX metabolic capability from proposals/metpo_traitmech_v11 after repository-wide duplicate review.