A food chain of ribozymes built on an ancestral strand
Ronen Weiss, Carmel Farage, Nadav Mellul, Adva Levy-Zamir, N Joseph, Y Svirskaya, O Ben Dov, N Vernia, Shmulik Ittah, Ariel Ionescu, Danny Ionescu, Ido Bachelet
The paper constructs a model of RNA-based food chain interactions using ancestral RNA strands found in Dead Sea sinkholes, showing competitive dynamics and environmental sensitivity.
bioRxiv · Dec 23, 2025 · PreprintBiophysics