A cross-kingdom history.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25872909.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.07527 and PMC identifier 4396505.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The enzyme that catalyses the last step in the synthesis of ascorbate has been repeatedly lost and replaced during the evolution of the different kingdoms of eukaryotes.
Medical subject headings
- Ascorbic Acid
- Biological Evolution
- Biosynthetic Pathways
- Eukaryota
- Photosynthesis
- Plastids