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Recent Loss of Vitamin C Biosynthesis Ability in Bats

The traditional assumption that bats cannot synthesize vitamin C (Vc) has been challenged recently. We have previously shown that two Old World bat species (Rousettus leschenaultii and Hipposideros armiger) have functional L-gulonolactone oxidase (GULO), an enzyme that catalyzes the last step of Vc...

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Autores principales: Cui, Jie, Yuan, Xinpu, Wang, Lina, Jones, Gareth, Zhang, Shuyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22069493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027114