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The Evolution of Cell-to-Cell Communication in a Sporulating Bacterium
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Traditionally microorganisms were considered to be autonomous organisms that could be studied in isolation. However, over the last decades cell-to-cell communication has been found to be ubiquitous. By secreting molecular ...
Selection for Replicases in Protocells
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
We consider a world of nucleotide sequences and protocells. The sequences have the property of spontaneous self-replication. Some sequences - so-called replicases - have enzymatic activity in the sense of enhancing the ...