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The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA

In the early ‘RNA world’ stage of life, RNA stored genetic information and catalyzed chemical reactions. However, the RNA world eventually gave rise to the DNA–RNA–protein world, and this transition included the ‘genetic takeover’ of information storage by DNA. We investigated evolutionary advantage...

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Autores principales: Leu, Kevin, Obermayer, Benedikt, Rajamani, Sudha, Gerland, Ulrich, Chen, Irene A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
Materias:
RNA
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21724606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr525