OoL digest — January 30 edition
This week we have 4 preprints and 8 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
A Novel Online Adaptation Mechanism in Artificial Systems Provides Phenotypic Plasticity – Braccini et al. – Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation
Astrobiology
Dispersion of Bacteria by Low-Pressure Boiling: Life Detection in Enceladus’ Plume Material – Perera et al. – Astrobiology
Climate and atmospheric models of rocky planets: habitability and observational properties – Silva et al. – preprint
Biochemistry
The rocky road to organics needs drying – Andreani et al. – Nature Communications
Phase Separation in Biology and Disease; Current Perspectives and Open Questions – Boeynaems et al. – Journal of Molecular Biology
Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water – Thoma et al. – Journal of the American Chemical Society
The modular biochemical reaction network structure of cellular translation – Zuviria et al. – preprint
Biology
Sedimentary DNA can influence evolution: Establishing mineral facilitated horizontal gene transfer as a route to bacterial fitness – Verma et al. – preprint
Microbiology
Evidence of a possible multicellular life cycle in Escherichia coli – Puri et al. – iScience
Paleontology
Interpreting fossilized nervous tissues – Aria et al. – BioEssays
Planetary science
Atmospheric Chemistry of Secondary and Hybrid Atmospheres of Super Earths and Sub-Neptunes – Tian et al. – preprint
Statistical physics
Dissipation + Utilization = Self-Organization – Crecraft – Entropy