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The origin of a primordial genome through spontaneous symmetry breaking

The heredity of a cell is provided by a small number of non-catalytic templates—the genome. How did genomes originate? Here, we demonstrate the possibility that genome-like molecules arise from symmetry breaking between complementary strands of self-replicating molecules. Our model assumes a populat...

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Autores principales: Takeuchi, Nobuto, Hogeweg, Paulien, Kaneko, Kunihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00243-x