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Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w
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Prebiotic chemistry, driven by changing environmental parameters provides canonical and a multitude of non-canonical nucleosides. This suggests that Watson-Crick base pairs were selected from a diverse pool of nucleosides in a pre-Darwinian chemical evolution process.

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Becker, S., Schneider, C., Crisp, A., & Carell, T. (2018, December 1). Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life. Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w

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