The path from the RNA world

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-17

  Poole, Anthony M ^a,b   Jeffares, Daniel C ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome structure; Introns; Molecular evolution; Molecular fossils; Origin of translation; Prokaryote origins; r Selection; Theoretical biology; Thermoreduction; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

DARWINIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031984372     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006275     Document Type: Article

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