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Sterol Evolution: Cholesterol Synthesis in Animals Is Less a Required Trait Than an Acquired Taste

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1 Published in 2020 at "Current Biology"

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.007

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… read more here.

Keywords: cholesterol synthesis; cholesterol; sterol evolution; sterol ... See more keywords