Genome biology · 2005 · 27 citations · 24 references
These unexpected findings suggest that selection against translation error has not produced codon or amino-acid usages that minimize the effects of errors, and that even messages with very different nucleotide compositions somehow maintain a relatively constant error value. They raise the question: why do all known organisms use highly error-minimizing genetic codes, but fail to minimize the errors in the mRNA messages they encode?
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The origin of the genetic code
Francis Crick · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1968 · 2.3K citations
On the evolution of the genetic code.
Carl R. Woese · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1965 · 486 citations · Full text