The role of complex formation and deleterious mutations for the stability of RNA-like replicator systems

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 668-686

  Takeuchi, Nobuto ^a,b   Hogeweg, Paulien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Theoretische Biologie/Bioinformatica   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex formation; Mesoscale pattern; Prebiotic evolution; RNA world; Spatially extended replicator dynamics; Stochastic reaction diffusion model; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATALYST; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; RNA REPLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RNA; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 37549070647     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-007-9044-6     Document Type: Article

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