Emergence of linkage between cooperative RNA replicators encoding replication and metabolic enzymes through experimental evolution

• Kensuke Ueda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, the University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ryo Mizuuchi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mizuuchi@waseda.jp (RM); ichihashi@bio.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (NI)

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, JST, FOREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6712-1040

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• Norikazu Ichihashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mizuuchi@waseda.jp (RM); ichihashi@bio.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp (NI)

  Affiliations Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, the University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, Komaba Institute for Science, the University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, Universal Biology Institute, the University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

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