Limited Sequence Diversity Within a Population Supports Prebiotic RNA Reproduction

The origins of life require the emergence of informational polymers capable of reproduction. In the RNA world on the primordial Earth, reproducible RNA molecules would have arisen from a mixture of compositionally biased, poorly available, short RNA sequences in prebiotic environments. However, it r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ryo Mizuuchi, Niles Lehman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Life
Subjects:
RNA
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/9/1/20