Sequence fossils, triplet expansion, and reconstruction of earliest codons

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Trifonov, E N ^a   Bettecken, T ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early amino acids; Early mRNA; Evolution of code; Master tRNA; Polyalanine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031593213     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00479-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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