The robustness of naturally and artificially selected nucleic acid secondary structures.

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Thermodynamic stability and mutational robustness of secondary structure are critical to the function and evolutionary longevity of RNA molecules. We hypothesize that natural and artificial selection for functional molecules favors the formation of structures that are stable to both thermal and mutational perturbation. There is little direct evidence, however, that functional RNA molecules have been selected for...

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