Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life.

Sidney BeckerChristina Schneider Antony L Crisp Thomas Carell

Published in: Nature communications (2018)

Prebiotic chemistry, driven by changing environmental parameters provides canonical and a multitude of non-canonical nucleosides. This suggests that Watson-Crick base pairs were selected from a diverse pool of nucleosides in a pre-Darwinian chemical evolution process.

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