This may be significant because in Arabidopsis thaliana , the two enzymes FAR5 and FAR8 are 85% identical at the amino acid level, but they possess distinct substrate specificities for 18:0 or 16:0 acyl chain lengths, respectively ( Chacón et al. 2013 ).
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Birth-and-Death Evolution of the Fatty Acyl-CoA Reductase (FAR) Gene Family and Diversification of Cuticular Hydrocarbon Synthesis in Drosophila.
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