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Evolution before genes

Vera Vasas1,2, Chrisantha Fernando3,4, Mauro Santos1, Stuart Kauffman5 and Eörs Szathmáry2,6*

Author Affiliations

1 Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Grup de Biologia Evolutiva (GBE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

2 Institute of Biology, Eötvös University, 1/c Pázmány Péter sétány, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

3 School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

4 Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK

5 Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Alta T2N, Canada

6 Parmenides Foundation, Kirchplatz 1, D-82049 Munich/Pullach, Germany

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Biology Direct 2012, 7:1 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-7-1

Published: 5 January 2012

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Spontaneous Formation and Evolution of Autocatalytic Sets within Compartments. This document provides information on methodological details, gives examples of autocatalytic loops, and discusses results that were only briefly mentioned in the main text.

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