Prebiotic replicase evolution in a surface-bound metabolic system: Parasites as a source of adaptive evolution

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Könnyu, Balázs ^d   Czárán, Tamás ^a   Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b,c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

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

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOZYME;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; MODEL; MUTATION; PARASITE; SIMULATION; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 55149106796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-267     Document Type: Article

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