Exceptional error minimization in putative primordial genetic codes

Biology Direct

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Novozhilov, Artem S ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; CODON; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 71549166642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-44     Document Type: Article

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