Coevolutlon theory of genetic code at age thirty

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 416-425

  Wong, J Tze Fei ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CODON; COEVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; LIFE; NONHUMAN; STEREOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 17844405021     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20208     Document Type: Article

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