The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life - Ribas de Pouplana, Lluis; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2004)
The Early Earth -- Reconstructing the Universal Tree of Life -- The Nature of the Last Common Ancestor -- Ribozyme-Catalyzed Genetics -- The Scope of Selection -- The Evolutionary History of the Translation Machinery -- Functional Evolution of Ribosomes -- Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases as Clues to Establishment of the Genetic Code -- The Relation between Function, Structure and Evolution of Elongation Factors Tu -- Origin and Evolution of DNA and DNA Replication Machineries -- Early Evolution of DNA Repair Mechanisms -- Extant Variations in the Genetic Code -- Adaptive Evolution of the Genetic Code -- Expanding the Genetic Code in Vitro and in Vivo.
Keywords: Biochemistry; Cell biology; Evolutionary biology; Biochemistry, general; Cell Biology; Evolutionary Biology