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Are Viroids Molecular Fossils of the RNA World?

✍ Scribed by Julian Chela-Flores

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 178 KB
Volume: 166
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1994.1014

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✦ Synopsis

We discuss a difficulty that may be raised against the Diener hypothesis that viroids may be interpreted as molecular fossils of the RNA world. We provide a possible way of removing such a difficulty (hence supporting the Diener hypothesis). Our reasoning entails further work by plant pathologists on a proposed search for a well-defined molecular process. It is shown that such process would be of biological and evolutionary significance.

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