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Natural and artificial RNAs occupy the same restricted region of sequence space.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Feb 2010
Kennedy Ryan, Lladser Manuel E, Wu Zhiyuan, Zhang Chen, Yarus Michael, De Sterck Hans, Knight Rob
Abstract excerpt
Different chemical and mutational processes within genomes give rise to sequences with different compositions and perhaps different capacities for evolution. The evolution of functional RNAs may occur on a "neutral network" in which sequences with any given function can easily mutate to sequences with any other. This neutral network hypothesis is more likely if there is a particular region of composition that...
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