The scenario on the origin of translation in the RNA world: In principle of replication parsimony

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ma, Wentao ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 78649315944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-65     Document Type: Article

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