Evolvability and self-replication of genetic information in Liposomes

The Minimal Cell: The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 275-287

  Matsuura, Tomoaki ^a,b   Ichihashi, Norikazu ^a,b   Sunami, Takeshi ^b   Kita, Hiroshi ^b   Suzuki, Hiroaki ^a,b   Yomo, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom up approach; Constructive approach; Evolvability; Lipid vesicles; Q replicase; Self encoding system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861899260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9944-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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