A complete enzymatic capacity for biosynthesis of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22 : 6n–3) exists in the marine Harpacticoida copepod Tigriopus californicus

The long-standing paradigm establishing that global production of Omega-3 (n–3) long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) derived almost exclusively from marine single-cell organisms, was recently challenged by the discovery that multiple invertebrates possess methyl-end (or ωx) desaturases,...

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Published in:Open Biol
Main Authors: Kabeya, Naoki, Ogino, Masanari, Ushio, Hideki, Haga, Yutaka, Satoh, Shuichi, Navarro, Juan C., Monroig, Óscar
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8080000/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33906414
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200402
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