title: Prebiotic evolution: selecting for homochirality before RNA.
abstract: Recent results show that the self-assembly of long homochiral oligomers of a nucleotide analogue can be achieved by ligation of short oligomers of chirally mixed composition. Do these results show how the RNA world might have arisen?
authors.affiliation: Evolutionary Biology Research Group, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D000069497:Origin of Life; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D012313:RNA