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nitrate respiration

traitmech:000122 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A nitrogen respiration in which nitrate is the terminal electron acceptor, reduced to nitrite or further reduced products.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.1126/science.1254070
    Denitrification converts nitrate into nitrogenous gas and thus removes fixed nitrogen from the biosphere, whereas ammonification converts nitrate into ammonium

    Kraft et al. support nitrate respiration as a bacterial nitrogen-oxide respiration branch with denitrification or DNRA endpoints.

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Definition source
DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

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Synonyms (1)

  • nitrate_respiration 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.