Prebiotic selection for motifs in a model of template-free elongation of polymers within compartments

• Grant Kinsler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grant Kinsler, Sam Sinai

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

  Affiliations Dept. Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Dept. Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8308-4665

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• Sam Sinai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grant Kinsler, Sam Sinai

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

  Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Nicholas Keone Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2756-1102

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• Martin A. Nowak

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

  * E-mail: martin_nowak@harvard.edu

  Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Dept. Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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