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Título: | Evidence of evolutionary optimization of fatty acid length and unsaturation |
Autor: | Galván, Ismael CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Monounsaturated fatty acids Birds Fatty acid length Lipid peroxidation Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of evolution |
Fecha de publicación: | 2018 | Editor: | Blackwell Publishing | Citación: | Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 172- 176 (2018) | Resumen: | The lipid composition of cell membranes exerts a crucial influence on cell physiology. Indeed, one double bond triggers membrane fluidity, essential for cell functionality, but additional double bonds increase the susceptibility to peroxidation, which produces reactive compounds that impair the viability of cells. It has therefore been suggested, but never tested in an extensive comparative context, that the composition of membrane fatty acids has been optimized during evolution. A similar prediction has been made for fatty acid chain length, on which susceptibility to peroxidation also depends. Here I tested for stabilizing selection on fatty acid composition by evaluating the fitting of the single stationary peak (SSP) model of evolution to a large data set from 107 species of birds, against alternative evolutionary models. I found that across-species variation in average chain length and in the proportion of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), but not in the proportion of polyunsaturated (PUFAs) nor saturated (SFAs) fatty acids, was better explained by SSP models than by other models. Results show optimum values of fatty acid chain length and proportion of MUFAs of 18 C atoms and 25.5% mol, respectively, the strength of stabilizing selection being particularly high in chain length. This is the first evidence of evolutionary optimization in fatty acid composition, suggesting that certain values may have been selected because of their adaptive capacity to minimize susceptibility to lipid peroxidation. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/168857 | DOI: | 10.1111/jeb.13198 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13198 issn: 1420-9101 |
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