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Overlapping messages and survivability.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Oct 2004
Peleg Ofer, Kirzhner Valery, Trifonov Edward, Bolshoy Alexander
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The phenomenon of overlapping of various sequence messages in genomes is a puzzle for evolutionary theoreticians, geneticists, and sequence researchers. The overlapping is possible due to degeneracy of the messages, in particular, degeneracy of codons. It is often observed in organisms with a limited size of genome, possessing polymerases of low fidelity. The most accepted view considers the overlapping as a...
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