The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 8135-8147

  Leu, Kevin ^a   Obermayer, Benedikt ^b   Rajamani, Sudha ^a   Gerland, Ulrich ^c   Chen, Irene A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80054072119     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr525     Document Type: Article

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