Compositional inheritance: Comparison of self-assembly and catalysis

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 399-418

  Wu, Meng ^a   Higgs, Paul G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocatalytic set; Catalysis; Compositional inheritance; Lipid vesicle; Lipid world; Moran model; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ALLELE; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERITABILITY; LIPID; POLYMER; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; LIPIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 54949158178     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-008-9143-4     Document Type: Article

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