OoL digest — August 12 edition
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
How to search for Europan life
Gibb — Nature Chemistry
Do SETI Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem?
Kipping et al. — preprint
Mapping “Brain Terrain” Regions on Mars using Deep Learning
Pearson et al. — preprint
Liquid water in the Martian mid-crust
Wright et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Astrophysics
Stellar flares are far-ultraviolet luminous
Berger et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eccentric orbits may enhance the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets
Liu et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chemical abundance gradients of organic molecules within a protostellar disk
Walls et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
A novel quinone biosynthetic pathway illuminates the evolution of aerobic metabolism
Elling et al. — preprint
The evolutionary arch of bioenergetics from prebiotic mechanisms to the emergence of a cellular respiratory chain
Kalapos et al. — BioSystems
Measuring heritability in messy prebiotic chemical systems
Sokolskyi et al. — preprint
Chemistry
Template-based copying in chemically fuelled dynamic combinatorial libraries
Kriebisch et al. — Nature Chemistry
Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry
Matreux et al. — preprint
Geosciences
Sea level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations
Bowyer et al. — Science Advances
Abiotic synthesis of graphitic carbons in the Eoarchean Saglek-Hebron metasedimentary rocks
Guo et al. — Nature Communications
A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite
Lissenberg et al. — Science
Seawater barium and sulfide removal improved marine habitability for the Cambrian Explosion of early animals
Wei et al. — National Science Review
The constant oxidation state of Earth’s mantle since the Hadean
Zhang et al. — Nature Communications
Microbiology
Genetic predisposition towards multicellularity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Chen et al. — preprint
The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont
Hamm et al. — Nature Communications
The microwave bacteriome: biodiversity of domestic and laboratory microwave ovens
Iglesias et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology