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. 1998 Feb 3;95(3):987-92.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.3.987.

A supersymmetric model for the evolution of the genetic code

J D Bashford  1 , I Tsohantjis, P D Jarvis
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A supersymmetric model for the evolution of the genetic code

J D Bashford et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

A model is presented for the structure and evolution of the eukaryotic and vertebrate mitochondrial genetic codes, based on the representation theory of the Lie superalgebra A(5,0) approximately sl(6/1). A key role is played by pyrimidine and purine exchange symmetries in codon quartets.

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Figure 1
Evolution of the EC and VMC. The notation is (2j2 + 1)*(2j1 + 1)*4b2, and stages Vi and Vii show the differences between branchings appropriate to the EC and the VMC; refer to Table 1 for the AAN, AGN, and AUN codons.
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