Evolutionary Patterns in the Sequence and Structure of Transfer RNA: A Window into Early Translation and the Genetic Code

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Feng-Jie Sun,

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

* E-mail: gca@uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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This phylogenetic method (known as constraint analysis) is powerful and was recently used to gain insight into the origin of cellular superkingdoms and viruses
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This work is available in PLoS Computational Biology at: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/doi/pcbi.1000018.

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