Cholesterol as an evolutionary response to living with oxygen

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2179-2183

  Brown, Andrew J ^a   Galea, Anne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

CHOLESTEROL; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATARACT; EVOLUTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CATARACT; CHOLESTEROL; EVOLUTION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN;

EID: 78349274036     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01011.x     Document Type: Article

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