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Being many molecules together in a bilayer membrane, the lipids act socially as described above in Chap. 9 and organize laterally in the plane of the bilayer in a non-random and non-uniform fashion. In contrast to the trans-bilayer structure described in Chap. 8, the lateral bilayer structure and its molecular organization are less well characterized and its importance also generally less appreciated.
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Mouritsen, O.G., Bagatolli, L.A. (2016). Social Lipids. In: LIFE - AS A MATTER OF FAT. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22614-9_11
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