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SUBMITTER: Furubayashi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7378860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Furubayashi Taro T Ueda Kensuke K Bansho Yohsuke Y Motooka Daisuke D Nakamura Shota S Mizuuchi Ryo R Ichihashi Norikazu N
eLife 20200721
In prebiotic evolution, molecular self-replicators are considered to develop into diverse, complex living organisms. The appearance of parasitic replicators is believed inevitable in this process. However, the role of parasitic replicators in prebiotic evolution remains elusive. Here, we demonstrated experimental coevolution of RNA self-replicators (host RNAs) and emerging parasitic replicators (parasitic RNAs) using an RNA-protein replication system we developed. During a long-term replication ...[more]