Prebiotically plausible mechanisms increase compositional diversity of nucleic acid sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4711-4722

  Derr, Julien ^a   Manapat, Michael L ^a,b   Rajamani, Sudha ^a   Leu, Kevin ^a   Xulvi Brunet, Ramon ^a   Joseph, Isaac ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a   Chen, Irene A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE POOL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA FOLDING;

BASE COMPOSITION; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; RNA; RNA FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 84861547994     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks065     Document Type: Article

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