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hydrocarbon degradation

traitmech:000128 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A metabolism in which an organism catabolizes a hydrocarbon, using it as a carbon and energy source.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.1128/MR.54.3.305-315.1990
    Hydrocarbons are degraded primarily by bacteria and fungi

    Leahy and Colwell review microbial hydrocarbon degradation across environmental microorganisms.

Provenance

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

Parent traits (1)

Children (1)

Synonyms (1)

  • hydrocarbon_degradation RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

Cross-references

  • GO:0120253

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.