OoL digest — June 23
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings
Anderson et al. — preprint
Virolithopanspermia: Might viruses be transported in rocks through space?
Bushman — PLOS Pathogens
Technosignature Searches with Real-time Alert Brokers
Gallay et al. — preprint
Application of a modified commercial laser mass spectrometer as a science analog of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA)
Garvin et al. — preprint
Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica
Husain et al. — Nature Communications
Tides Tighten the Hycean Habitable Zone
Livesey et al. — preprint
Deep chemical weathering on ancient Mars landscapes driven by erosional and climatic patterns
Moore et al. — Nature Astronomy
The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge: Titan as an Exoplanet
Niraula et al. — preprint
UVC-Intense Exoplanets May Not Be Uninhabitable: Evidence from a Desert Lichen
Singh et al. — Astrobiology
Life might seem out of whack
Woods — Nature Astronomy
Biochemistry
Peptides at vesicle and mineral prebiotic interfaces
Cherepashuk et al. — preprint
ChemOrigins: A community curated database for origins of life chemistry
Cuevas et al. — preprint
Phosphorylation of nucleosides by P-N bond species generated from prebiotic reduced phosphorus sources
Gull et al. — Communications Chemistry
Bringing the Genetically Minimal Cell to Life on a Computer in 4D
Thornburg et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Genetic Predisposition Toward Multicellularity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Chen et al. — Genome Biology and Evolution
A key role for centralspindlin and Ect2 in the development of multicellularity and the emergence of Metazoa
Glotzer — Current Biology
The Possible Crystallization Process in the Origin of Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, and Mobile Elements
Yoshimura et al. — Biology
Palaeontology
Small shelly fauna biodiversity from reef-adjacent facies of the lower Cambrian Harkless Formation, Nevada
Bennett et al. — Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Planetary sciences
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation
Bezaly et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Seager et al. — preprint