The place of RNA in the origin and early evolution of the genetic machinery

Life

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1050-1091

  Wächtershäuser, Günter ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

All purine RNA; Flow setting; Last universal common ancestor (LUCA); Ligand accelerated catalysis; Peptide cycle; Pre ribosome; Thermal evolution; Trionucleic acid; Urzymes; Wong theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922070316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life4041050     Document Type: Article

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