Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Searching for lost nucleotides of the pre-RNA World with a self-refining model of early Earth

  • Nicholas V. Hud

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07389-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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The nucleotides of RNA appear to be products of evolution. Experimental studies are showing that plausible proto-nucleotides can be formed in simulated early Earth environments. In turn, these results help to clarify the prebiotic processes that give rise to nucleotides.