Small genomes and the difficulty to define minimal translation and metabolic machineries

The notion of minimal life has sparked the interest of scientists in different fields, ranging from the origin-of-life research to biotechnology-oriented synthetic biology. Whether the interest is focused on the emergence of protocells out of prebiotic systems or the design of a cell chassis ready t...

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Main Authors: Rosario eGil, Juli ePeretó
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00123/full