Cyanate, a degradation product of urea and cyanide, has been found to be a sufficient single substrate for the growth and reciprocal feeding of microorganisms that are essential to the global nitrogen cycle. See Letter p.105
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Stein, L. Cyanate fuels the nitrogen cycle. Nature 524, 43–44 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14639
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