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Selection advantage of metabolic over non-metabolic replicators: a kinetic analysis.
Bio Systems - 1 Feb 2010
Wagner Nathaniel, Pross Addy, Tannenbaum Emmanuel
Abstract excerpt
A kinetic analysis and simulation of the replication reactions of two competing replicators-one non-metabolic (thermodynamic), the other metabolic, are presented. Our analysis indicates that in a rich resource environment the non-metabolic replicator is likely to be kinetically selected for over the metabolic replicator. However, in the more typical resource-poor environment it will be the metabolic replicator...
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