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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...
Autores principales: | Cui, Jie, Yuan, Xinpu, Wang, Lina, Jones, Gareth, Zhang, Shuyi |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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