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dark oxidation of sulfur compounds

traitmech:000132 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A sulfur oxidation in which an organism oxidizes a reduced inorganic sulfur compound as an electron donor for energy conservation independently of light.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.14543
    dark sulfide oxidation was coupled to high oxygen consumption rates

    Berg et al. experimentally couple dark aerobic sulfide oxidation to oxygen consumption in anoxygenic phototrophs.

Provenance

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Definition source
DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

Parent traits (1)

Synonyms (1)

  • dark_oxidation_of_sulfur_compounds 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.