Abstract:
:The origin of the modern genetic code and the mechanisms that have contributed to its present form raise many questions. The main goal of this work is to test two hypotheses concerning the development of the genetic code for their compatibility and complementarity and see if they could benefit from each other. On the one hand, Gonzalez, Giannerini and Rosa developed a theory, based on four-based codons, which they called tesserae. This theory can explain the degeneracy of the modern vertebrate mitochondrial code. On the other hand, in the 1990s, so-called circular codes were discovered in nature, which seem to ensure the maintenance of a correct reading-frame during the translation process. It turns out that the two concepts not only do not contradict each other, but on the contrary complement and enrichen each other.
journal_name
Bull Math Bioljournal_title
Bulletin of mathematical biologyauthors
Fimmel E,Starman M,Strüngmann Ldoi
10.1007/s11538-020-00724-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-04-04 00:00:00pages
48issue
4eissn
0092-8240issn
1522-9602pii
10.1007/s11538-020-00724-zjournal_volume
82pub_type
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