"Living" under the challenge of information decay: the stochastic corrector model vs. hypercycles.

Abstract excerpt

The combined problem of having a large genome size when the accuracy of replication was a limiting factor is probably the most difficult transition to explain at the late stages of RNA world. One solution has been to suggest the existence of a cyclically coupled system of autocatalytic and cross-catalytic molecular mutualists, where each member helps the following member and receives help from the preceding one...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Statistical
• Monte Carlo Method
• Mutation
• RNA