Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: Selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Mulkidjanian, Armen Y ^a,b   Cherepanov, Dmitry A ^a,c   Galperin, Michael Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARWINIA;

BIOPOLYMER; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; LIFE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOPOLYMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIFE; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0347386530     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-3-12     Document Type: Article

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