Studies in the Evolution of Biological Activity from Random Sequences

Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Proteins, RNA and the Immune System: The Proceedings of the Workshop on Applied Molecular Evolution and the Maturation of the Immune Response, Held March, 1989 In Santa Fe, New Mexico

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 255-264

  Horwitz, Marshall S Z ^a   Dube, Dipak K ^a   Loeb, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780429498879-15     Document Type: Chapter

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