Molecular sleuths track evolution through the ribosome
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 16:35
in Biology & Nature
A new study of the ribosome, the cell's protein-building machinery, sheds light on the oldest branches of the evolutionary tree of life and suggests that differences in ribosomal structure between the three main branches of that tree are "molecular fossils" of the early evolution of protein synthesis.
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