Assessing the Likelihood of Recurrence during RNA Evolution in Vitro

Artificial Life

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Lehman, Niles ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness landscape; In vitro evolution; Recurrence; Ribozymes; RNA

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DRUG PRODUCTS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

FITNESS LANDSCAPE; IN VITRO EVOLUTIONS; RECURRENCE; RIBOZOMES;

RNA;

RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 1142277795     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454604322875887     Document Type: Article

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