#sitosterol — Public Fediverse posts
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Gutless marine #worms on a Mediterranean diet: #Animals can synthesize #phytosterols https://phys.org/news/2023-05-gutless-marine-worms-mediterranean-diet.html
De novo phytosterol synthesis in animals https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add7830 by Dolma Michellod et al.
"Their study is the first to show that a #metazoan #animal can synthesize #phytosterols... Even more surprising for the researchers was their discovery that the gene needed to make #sitosterol from precursors of #cholesterol is widespread in the animal kingdom."