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Although cholesterol is considered a vital lipid for animals, not all animals can make cholesterol. A new study employing that celebrated elegant worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, investigates mechanisms that evolved in… Click to show full abstract
Although cholesterol is considered a vital lipid for animals, not all animals can make cholesterol. A new study employing that celebrated elegant worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, investigates mechanisms that evolved in a sterol auxotroph to enable survival without sterol synthesis.
Keywords:
cholesterol synthesis;
cholesterol;
sterol evolution;
sterol;
evolution cholesterol
Journal Title: Current Biology
Year Published: 2020
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Journal Title: Current Biology
Year Published: 2020
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