General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins

The dependence of cell-free protein synthesis in <i>E. coli</i> upon naturally occurring or synthetic polyribonucleotides

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Johannes Matthaei · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1961 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +8

ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE GENETIC FINE STRUCTURE

Seymour Benzer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1961 · 580 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +13

ON THE TOPOLOGY OF THE GENETIC FINE STRUCTURE

Seymour Benzer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1959 · 394 citations · Full text

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CODES WITHOUT COMMAS

Francis Crick, J. S. Griffith, Leslie E. Orgel · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1957 · 329 citations · Full text

Engineering, Bioengineering, Cell Biology +14

The theory of mutagenesis

Sydney Brenner, Leslie Barnett, Francis Crick et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1961 · 262 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Theory +2