Lethal mutants and truncated selection together solve a paradox of the origin of life

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Saakian, David B ^a,b,c   Biebricher, Christof K ^d   Hu, Chin Kun ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; DISASTER; LETHAL MUTANT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NEUTRAL MUTANT; PHYSICS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETHAL GENE; LIFE; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PROTEIN;

BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOPHYSICS; DNA REPLICATION; GENES, LETHAL; HUMANS; LIFE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79960804859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021904     Document Type: Article

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