The Hypercycle
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The hypercycle was proposed as a solution to the error threshold.
“The hypercycle was proposed by Eigen and Schuster [22,41,42,43] as a solution to the error threshold [1], a severe limit to the information content of primordial biological sequences.”
From Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems (2017) · cites this paper as [43]
Models for enantioselective hypercyclic replicators replace Frank inhibition with mutual cross-catalytic processes.
“Models for enantioselective hypercyclic replicators were recently disclosed in which the inhibition reaction in the Frank model has been replaced by mutual cross-catalytic processes occurring between families of coupled replicators.350,351”
From Possible chemical and physical scenarios towards biological homochirality (2022) · cites this paper as [351]
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- Authors
- Eigen, M., & Schuster, P.
- ORCID
- Schuster, Peter
- Venue
- Springer eBooks
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 1979
- OpenAlex
- W4255996317
- Cited by
- 949
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 30
- FWCI
- 3.50
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Systems and Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications
- Keywords
- hypercycles, autocatalysis, origin of life, self-replicating systems, chemical evolution, autocatalytic networks
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