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Compositional genomes: Prebiotic information transfer in mutually catalytic noncovalent assemblies

Daniel Segré, Dafna Ben-Eli, and Doron Lancet
  1. Department of Molecular Genetics and the Crown Human Genome Center, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel

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PNAS April 11, 2000 97 (8) 4112-4117; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.8.4112
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  1. Communicated by Samuel Karlin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (received for review September 2, 1999)

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vol. 97 no. 8 4112-4117
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.8.4112
PubMed: 
10760281

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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Received September 2, 1999
  • Accepted January 28, 2000
  • Published April 11, 2000.

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Copyright © 2000, The National Academy of Sciences

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  1. Daniel Segré,
  2. Dafna Ben-Eli, and
  3. Doron Lancet†
  1. Department of Molecular Genetics and the Crown Human Genome Center, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
  1. Communicated by Samuel Karlin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (received for review September 2, 1999)

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    • ↵† To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: doron.lancet{at}weizmann.ac.il.

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