Coevolution of metabolic networks and membranes: The scenario of progressive sequestration

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1486, 2007, Pages 1781-1787

  Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Enzymatization; Infrabiological systems; Metabolism; Patchwork evolution; Retroevolution

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; COEVOLUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 35148848683     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2070     Document Type: Article

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