Molecular evolution and optimization.

J T Trevors

doi:10.1023/a:1000456825081

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Molecular evolution and optimization.

J T Trevors

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Abstract

Microbial populations (and life) not only evolve, they optimize. The transition from a random, unorganized, lifeless Earth to the present situation, where the Earth is virtually covered with nucleic acids and diverse and complex species, required numerous molecular changes and the integration of metabolic pathways over billions of years. Primitive prokaryotic life was dependent on and constrained by the physical-chemical conditions on the Earth, while slowly reshaping conditions present. In this review, molecular evolution and molecular optimization are examined with an emphasis on the order in which evolutionary events occurred.

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J T Trevors. 1997. Molecular evolution and optimization.. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1000456825081

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