The antiquity of RNA-based evolution

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6894, 2002, Pages 214-221

  Joyce, Gerald F ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA; ENZYMES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MOLECULES;

CATALYTIC PROPERTIES;

RNA;

DNA; RIBOZYME; RNA;

DNA; ORIGIN OF LIFE; RNA;

ASTRONOMY; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GEOLOGY; LIFE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; DNA; EVOLUTION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 0037062978     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/418214a     Document Type: Review

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