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Shedding light on sunscreen biosynthesis in zebrafish

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2015

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10.7554/eLife.07961

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Brotherton, Carolyn A., and Emily P Balskus. 2015. “Shedding light on sunscreen biosynthesis in zebrafish.” eLife 4 (1): e07961. doi:10.7554/eLife.07961. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07961.

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Zebrafish can synthesize a sunscreen compound called gadusol, which was previously thought to be acquired only through the diet.

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Insight, Biochemistry, vertebrates, gadusol, sunscreen, mycosporine, 2-epi-5-epi-valiolone synthase, biosynthesis, , zebrafish

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