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The Foundations Of Network Dynamics In An Rna Recombinase System, Jessica Anne Mellor Yeates
The Foundations Of Network Dynamics In An Rna Recombinase System, Jessica Anne Mellor Yeates
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How life originated from physical and chemical processes is one of the great questions still unanswered today. Studies towards this effort have transitioned from the notion of a single self-replicating entity to the idea that a network of interacting molecules made this initial biological leap. In order to understand the chemical kinetic and thermodynamic mechanisms that could engender pre-life type networks we present an empirical characterization of a network of RNA recombinase molecules. We begin with 1-, 2-, and 3-molecular ensembles and provide a game theoretic analysis to describe the frequency dependent dynamics of competing and cooperating RNA genotypes. This …