Question:
The composition of membrane lipids of ciliates is determined by their diet and represent the oxic/anoxic state of the watercolumn. If they switch from making making sterols to tetrahymanol (triperpenoid), what happened?
Author: MagaliAnswer:
Watercolumn switched from oxic to anoxic and the ciliated switched from eating algae (eukaryotes) to bacteria (bactiverous ciliates)
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