OoL digest — February 24
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
The Venusian Chronicles
Anchordoqui et al. — preprint
Stronger Evidence of a Subsurface Ocean Within Callisto From a Multifrequency Investigation of Its Induced Magnetic Field
Cochrane et al. — AGU Advances
Machine-assisted classification of potential biosignatures in earth-like exoplanets using low signal-to-noise ratio transmission spectra
Duque-Castaño et al. — preprint
Ammonia or Methanol Would Enable Subsurface Liquid Water at the Martian South Pole
Egea-González et al. — Astrobiology
Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection
Gentilhomme et al. — Astrobiology
Understanding Sulfate Stability on Mars: A Thermo-Raman Spectroscopy Study
Huidobro et al. — Astrobiology
CO2 and H2S in Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Synthesis and the Emergence of Prebiological States
Malyshev et al. — Astrobiology
Higher Microbial Biomass Accumulation on El Médano 464 Meteorite Compared with Adjacent Soils in the Atacama Desert
Pinto et al. — Astrobiology
Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?
Sheikh et al. — The Astronomical Journal
The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE)
Wahlund et al. — Space Science Reviews
Biochemistry
Compositional and functional diversity of minimal primitive coacervates in a nucleic acid-peptide world
Nakashima et al. — preprint
Geosciences
Soda lake phosphorus fluxes controlled by biological uptake imply abundant phosphate in plausible origin-of-life environments
Haas et al. — Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Microbiology
Microbial ecology of acidic, biogenic gypsum: Community structure and distribution of extremophiles on freshly formed and relict sulfate deposits in a hydrogen sulfide-rich cave
Havlena et al. — preprint
Multiple pathways to the evolution of positive assortment in aggregative multicellularity
Stoy et al. — preprint
Convergent pairs of highly transcribed genes restrict chromatin looping in Dictyostelium discoideum
Zhegalova et al. — Nucleic Acids Research