An efficient prebiotic synthesis of cytosine and uracil.

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Published in Nature on June 29, 1995

Authors

M P Robertson1, S L Miller

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1: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0317, USA.

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