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From: Dynamics and stability in prebiotic information integration: an RNA World model from first principles

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Metabolically coupled prebiotic replicator communities. (a) Schematic representation of the catalytic interactions in a four-membered hypercycle of Eigen and Schuster. Solid arrows symbolize catalytic aid. (b) Schematic representation of the catalytic interactions in a four-membered Metabolically Coupled Replicator System (MCRS). Each replicator catalyses a single reaction (solid arrows) of a metabolic network (M) producing the monomers that all the replicators are built from (dashed arrows).

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