Compositional genomes: Prebiotic information transfer in mutually catalytic noncovalent assemblies

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

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 4112-4117

  Segré, Daniel ^a   Ben Eli, Dafna ^a   Lancet, Doron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; BIOPOLYMER; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CATALYSIS; GENOME; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0034636047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.8.4112     Document Type: Article

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