Publication Date:
2011-06-28
Description:
Author(s): Benedikt Obermayer, Hubert Krammer, Dieter Braun, and Ulrich Gerland A poorly understood step in the transition from a chemical to a biological world is the emergence of self-replicating molecular systems. We study how a precursor for such a replicator might arise in a hydrothermal RNA reactor, which accumulates longer sequences from unbiased monomer influx and rando... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 018101] Published Mon Jun 27, 2011
Keywords:
Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics