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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023

The Genetic Code Assembles via Division and Fusion, Basic Cellular Events.

Michael Yarus

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michael YarusDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0295-9795

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Standard Genetic Code (SGC) evolution is quantitatively modeled in up to 2000 independent coding 'environments'. Environments host multiple codes that may fuse or divide, with division yielding identical descendants. Code division may be selected-sophisticated gene products could be required for an orderly separation that preserves the coding. Several unforeseen results emerge: more rapid evolution requires unselective code division rather than its selective form. Combining selective and unselective code division, with/without code fusion, with/without independent environmental coding tables, and with/without wobble defines 2

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code accuracyevolutionMonte Carlo kineticsRNA worldSGC

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PMID37895450
PMCPMC10608286

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