Fig. 3: Effect of environmental fluctuations on the template-dependent replication of a ssRNA molecule adsorbed to a clay surface (comp.II).
From: Polymerization and replication of primordial RNA induced by clay-water interface dynamics
A Maximum complementary (C, green in all panels) and replicate (R, purple in all panels) polymer length distributions for an oscillating β and a constant α parameter. B Maximum polymer length distributions for an oscillating α and a constant β parameter. C Maximum polymer length distributions for different α fluctuating patterns, with a fixed β oscillation. D Maximum polymer length distributions for different β fluctuating patterns, with a fixed α oscillation. Fluctuating environments: “sin” stands for sinusoidal oscillation, “sq” for square wave, “rand” for random fluctuation. If not said otherwise, α0 = 0.8, Aα = 0.5, Tα = 2500 and β0 = 6, Aβ = 5.9, Tβ = 2500. Every simulation started with a random 20 nt-long ssRNA molecule, and was repeated 100 times.
