Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Plausible pathway for a host-parasite molecular replication network to increase its complexity through Darwinian evolution
R. Kamiura, R. Mizuuchi, N. Ichihashi
The paper investigates how host-parasite RNA replication networks evolve complexity through coevolution, showing that adding parasitic replicators and resistant hosts leads to multi-replicator networks.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010709