Evolutionary transition from a single RNA replicator to a multiple replicator network - Nature.com

Long-term experimental evolution shows that a single polymerase-encoding RNA replicator can evolve into a complex replicator network, shedding light on how a molecular replicator could have developed complexity before the emergence of life.

Plasmids and RNAs Two plasmids, each encoding the ancestral host RNA (HL00) and HL2120, were obtained previously as the plasmids encoding round 128 clone27 and Host-11529, respectively. Two plasmids… [+14675 chars]

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