A blind empiricism against the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 724-732

  Di Giulio, Massimo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic relationships between amino acids; Coevolution; Evolution of the codon subdomain in the code; Hypergeometric distribution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BASE PAIRING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0034781941     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010259     Document Type: Article

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