Spatial aspects of prebiotic replicator coexistence and community stability in a surface-bound RNA world model

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Könny, Balázs ^a,b   Czárán, Tamás ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Metabolic model; Parasite; Prebiotic genome size; Prebiotic replicators; RNA world

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RNA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ARTICLE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA;

EID: 84884311210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-204     Document Type: Article

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