Prebiotically plausible mechanisms increase compositional diversity of nucleic acid sequences

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Motif frequency and evolutionary search times in RNA populations

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Ribozyme-Catalyzed Transcription of an Active Ribozyme

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Effect of Stalling after Mismatches on the Error Catastrophe in Nonenzymatic Nucleic Acid Replication

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Enhanced Functional Potential of Nucleic Acid Aptamer Libraries Patterned to Increase Secondary Structure

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Multiple translational products from a five-nucleotide ribozyme

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Origin of Self-Replicating Biopolymers: Autocatalytic Feedback Can Jump-Start the RNA World

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The basic reproductive ratio of life

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Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

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Back to the future of nucleic acid self-amplification

(2009) Andrew D Ellington   Nature Chemical Biology

Natural and artificial RNAs occupy the same restricted region of sequence space

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The dawn of the RNA World: Toward functional complexity through ligation of random RNA oligomers

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Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

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On the structural repertoire of pools of short, random RNA sequences

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Originator dynamics

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Prevolutionary dynamics and the origin of evolution

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