Revisiting the Physico-Chemical Hypothesis of Code Origin: An Analysis Based on Code-Sequence Coevolution in a Finite Population

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 465-489

  Bandhu, Ashutosh Vishwa ^a   Aggarwal, Neha ^a   Sengupta, Supratim ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

Finite population; Genetic code; Natural selection; Optimization; Origin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COEVOLUTION; DNA; EMERGENCE; FIXATION; NATURAL SELECTION; OPTIMIZATION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROBABILITY; RNA;

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; RNA;

EID: 84896733379     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-014-9353-x     Document Type: Article

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