OoL digest — August 5 edition
This week we have 22 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Does Gaia Play Dice? : Simple Models of non-Darwinian Selection
Arthur et al. — preprint
Machine-assisted classification of potential biosignatures in earth-like exoplanets using low signal-to-noise ratio transmission spectra
Duque-Castaño et al. — preprint
Observations of phosphorus-bearing molecules in the interstellar medium
Fontani — preprint
The rapid formation of macromolecules in irradiated ice of protoplanetary disk dust traps
Ligterink et al. — Nature Astronomy
Astrophysics
X-ray Emission of Nearby Low-mass and Sun-like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable Zones
Binder et al. — preprint
Dynamical Viability Assessment for Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets
Kane et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Nonenzymatic, prebiotic aminoacylation couples chirality of RNA and protein
Davisson et al. — preprint
Mimicking lightning-induced electrochemistry on the early Earth
Jiang et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Template-based copying in chemically fuelled dynamic combinatorial libraries
Kriebisch et al. — Nature Chemistry
Phanerozoic co-evolution of O2-CO2 and ocean habitability
Lu et al. — National Science Review
Major evolutionary transitions before cells: A journey from molecules to organisms
Prosdocimi et al. — Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Biology
Sea level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations
Bowyer et al. — Science Advances
Hydrothermal seawater eutrophication triggered local macrobiological experimentation in the 2100 Ma Paleoproterozoic Francevillian sub-basin
Chi Fru et al. — Precambrian Research
Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection
Holstad et al. — Science
Flexible oviposition behavior enabled the evolution of terrestrial reproduction
Touchon et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Chemistry
Minimal Peptide Sequences That Undergo Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation via Self-Coacervation or Complex Coacervation with ATP
Castelletto et al. — Biomacromolecules
Interfacial energy-mediated bulk transport across artificial cell membranes
Tian et al. — Nature Chemical Engineering
Competitive protein recruitment in artificial cells
van Veldhuisen et al. — Communications Chemistry
Protocol for building synthetic protocell membranes that sense redox using synthetic phospholipids and natural lipids
Wang et al. — STAR Protocols
Computational biology
Spatial Structure Supports Diversity in Prebiotic Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems
Plum et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Extremophiles in a changing world
Cowan et al. — Extremophiles
Planetary sciences
Ishtar Terra highlands on Venus raised by craton-like formation mechanisms
Capitanio et al. — Nature Geoscience