Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7422, 2012, Pages 72-77

  Vaidya, Nilesh ^a   Manapat, Michael L ^b   Chen, Irene A ^b,d   Xulvi Brunet, Ramon ^b   Hayden, Eric J ^c   Lehman, Niles ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

CATALYST; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NETWORK DESIGN; RNA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION;

AZOARCUS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84868368844     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11549     Document Type: Article

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