The information capacity of hypercycles.

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Hypercycles are information integration systems which are thought to overcome the information crisis of prebiotic evolution by ensuring the coexistence of several short templates. For imperfect template replication, we derive a simple expression for the maximum number of distinct templates n(m) that can coexist in a hypercycle and show that it is a decreasing function of the length L of the templates. In the case...

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