A methanogen hosted the origin of the genetic code

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2009.05.030MaRDI QIDQ1625838zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Massimo Di Giulio

Publication date 26 November 2018

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.030

zbMATH Keywords

amino acid substitution patternbiological datingLUCAtiming of methanogenesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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Uses Software

• PSI-BLAST
• BLAST

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