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Recent loss of vitamin C biosynthesis ability in bats.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2011

Cui Jie, Yuan Xinpu, Wang Lina, Jones Gareth, Zhang Shuyi

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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 biosynthesis de novo. Given the uncertainties surrounding when and how bats lost GULO function, exploration of gene...

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PMID: 22069493
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027114
PMCID: PMC3206078

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