Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, the genetic code, and the evolutionary process.

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Published in Microbiol Mol Biol Rev on March 01, 2000

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C R Woese1, G J Olsen, M Ibba, D Söll

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1: Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

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