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selenate respiration

traitmech:000202 · CLASS · PROPOSED

An anaerobic respiration in which an organism uses selenate as the terminal electron acceptor for energy conservation.

Trait evidence (4)

  • DOI:10.1128/aem.60.8.3011-3019.1994
    A gram-negative, strictly anaerobic, motile vibrio was isolated from a selenate-respiring enrichment culture

    Oremland et al. isolated strain SES-3 from a selenate-respiring enrichment culture and showed anaerobic growth coupled to selenate reduction.

  • DOI:10.1128/AEM.02737-06
    use selenate as a terminal electron acceptor

    Narasingarao and Haggblom define the phenotype as use of selenate as a terminal electron acceptor in dissimilatory selenate reduction.

  • DOI:10.1128/AEM.02737-06
    four novel anaerobic dissimilatory selenate-respiring bacteria

    Narasingarao and Haggblom support selenate respiration as a repeatedly observed microbial trait across aquatic-sediment isolates rather than a single strain-specific anomaly.

  • DOI:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.12.011
    Here we characterize a novel selenate-respiring bacterium, strain AK4OH1, isolated from an estuarine sediment enrichment culture

    Narasingarao and Haggblom described Sedimenticola selenatireducens AK4OH1 as an anaerobic selenate-respiring bacterium isolated from estuarine sediment.

Provenance

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Definition source
DOI:10.1128/aem.60.8.3011-3019.1994

Parent traits (1)

Synonyms (1)

  • dissimilatory selenate reduction EXACT_SYNONYM

kg-microbe context

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

Canonical examples (1)

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Discussions and Knowledge Gaps (1)

Open questions attached to this trait. Seeded by just knowledge-gap-scan and curated; see the corpus-wide index.

Resolve an exact external ontology class for organism-level selenate respiration before adding a TraitRecord xref.

CURATION TODO OPEN selenate-respiration-xref-gap · raised by codex · 2026-09-15

Not yet attached to a section of this record — a curator sets attaches_to (e.g. causal_graphs#some_edge) so the gap shows beside the mechanism it concerns.

Candidate EC, Rhea, and protein-family terms for selenate reductase describe narrower molecular functions, reactions, or enzymes rather than the whole-organism anaerobic respiration phenotype.

Curation history

  1. · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex

    Minted selenate respiration as a DOI-backed anaerobic respiration TraitRecord after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files; the local METPO snapshot has no exact selenate respiration class and the replacement placeholder is reserved in proposals/metpo_traitmech_v79.