The degeneracy rule of genetic code

Codon—anticodon pairing: The wobble hypothesis

Francis Crick · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1966 · 2.1K citations

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Is the fixation of observable mutations distributed randomly among the three nucleotide positions of the codon?

Walter M. Fitch · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1973 · 65 citations

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Non-randomness of base replacement in point mutation

F. Vogel · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1972 · 57 citations

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The logic of the genetic code: Synonyms and optimality against effects of mutations

J. M. Labouygues, A. Figureau · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · 1984 · 12 citations

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On the optimality of the genetic code

Peter Milanov, Petar S. Kenderov, O. Ch. Ivanov · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · 1986 · 10 citations · Full text

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