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Horizontal transfer of code fragments between protocells can explain the origins of the genetic code without vertical descent

Theories of the origin of the genetic code typically appeal to natural selection and/or mutation of hereditable traits to explain its regularities and error robustness, yet the present translation system presupposes high-fidelity replication. Woese’s solution to this bootstrapping problem was to ass...

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Autores principales: Froese, Tom, Campos, Jorge I., Fujishima, Kosuke, Kiga, Daisuke, Virgo, Nathaniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29476089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21973-y