Relationships among isoacceptor tRNAs seems to support the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 168-177

  Chaley, M B ^a   Korotkov, E V ^a   Phoenix, D A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Molecular evolution; Origin of the genetic code; TRNA

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0032901102     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006455     Document Type: Article

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