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ISSO Y2005 Annual Report | Contents

Early Origins of Genetic Systems • 64-65,95
George E. Fox
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Abstract--Much of the early development of genetic machinery was accompanied by two-way exchange of components between early cellular systems possibly mediated in some cases by lateral gene transfer. A search for structural similarities between ribosomal proteins and other proteins revealed likely examples of such transfer.

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