A supersymmetric model for the evolution of the genetic code

AUTOR(ES)

Bashford, J. D.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

A model is presented for the structure and evolution of the eukaryotic and vertebrate mitochondrial genetic codes, based on the representation theory of the Lie superalgebra A(5,0) ≃ sl(6/1). A key role is played by pyrimidine and purine exchange symmetries in codon quartets.

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