The stability of the RNA bases: Implications for the origin of life

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 7933-7938

  Levy, Matthew ^a   Miller, Stanley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical evolution; Nucleobase hydrolysis; RNA world

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; RNA; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DECOMPOSITION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLYSIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032493439     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.14.7933     Document Type: Article

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