Evolutionary Patterns in the Sequence and Structure of Transfer RNA: Early Origins of Archaea and Viruses

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Feng-Jie Sun,

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

* E-mail: gca@uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Results are also consistent with the concept that viruses contributed to the development of the DNA replication machinery during the early diversification of the living world
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