The evolution of strand preference in simulated RNA replicators with strand displacement: Implications for the origin of transcription

Biology Direct

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Takeuchi, Nobuto ^a   Salazar, Laura ^a   Poole, Anthony M ^b,c   Hogeweg, Paulien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STATISTICS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 61749091147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-33     Document Type: Article

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