Additional Reading

Original papers: Mansy SS, Schrum JP, Krishnamurthy M, Tobé S, Treco D, and Szostak JW. Template-directed Synthesis of a Genetic Polymer in a Model Protocell. Nature, 2008; 454:122-5.

Zhu TF and Szostak JW. Coupled growth and division of model protocell membranes. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131: 5705–5713.

Reviews:

Ricardo A and Szostak JW. Origin of life on earth. Scientific American, 2009; 301:54-61.

Schrum JP, Zhu TF and Szostak JW. The Origins of Cellular Life. Chapter in, “The Origins of Life”, eds. D Deamer and JW Szostak, 2010, CSH Press.

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