OoL digest — June 24 edition
This week we have 24 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins
Alei et al. — preprint
Searching for Jupiter and Saturn analog planets with potential icy exomoons -- a Panspermia perspective
Bradak — preprint
Zircon microstructures record high temperature and pressure conditions during impact melt evolution at the West Clearwater Lake impact structure, Canada
Chinchalkar et al. — Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Synechococcus sp. PCC7335 responses to far-red enriched spectra and anoxic/microoxic atmospheres: Potential for astrobiotechnological applications
Liistro et al. — Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere
Madhusudhan — preprint
Windows Into Other Worlds: Pitfalls in the physical interpretation of exoplanet atmospheric spectroscopy
Modirrousta-Galian et al. — preprint
Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication
Schwintek et al. — preprint
Comparison of optical spectra between asteroids Ryugu and Bennu:I. Cross calibration between Hayabusa2/ONC-T and OSIRIS-REx/MapCam
Yumoto et al. — Icarus
Astrophysics
Retrieved Atmospheres and Inferred Surface Properties for Terrestrial Exoplanets Using Transmission and Reflected-light Spectroscopy
Gilbert-Janizek et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
A JWST project on 47 Tucanae. NIRSpec spectroscopy of multiple populations among M dwarfs
Marino et al. — preprint
The Limited Role of the Streaming Instability during Moon and Exomoon Formation
Nakajima et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Biochemistry
A Prebiotic Pathway to Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
Bechtel et al. — Chemistry – A European Journal
Self-generating autocatalytic networks: structural results, algorithms and their relevance to early biochemistry
Huson et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface
RNA-catalyzed evolution of catalytic RNA
Papastavrou et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication
Schwintek et al. — preprint
RNA Complexes with Nicks and Gaps: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Effects of Coaxial Stacking and Dangling Ends
Todisco et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
Impact of life origins on metabolism
Vazquez — preprint
Chemistry
Experimental Measurement of Assembly Indices are Required to Determine The Threshold for Life
Walker et al. — preprint
Mathematical biology
Biological Thermodynamics: Bridging the gap between physics and life
Igamberdiev et al. — BioSystems
Microbiology
Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals diverse taxa and metabolic complexity in Antarctic lake microbial structures
Greco et al. — Environmental Microbiology
Planetary sciences
The Source of Hydrogen in Earth’s Building Blocks
Barrett et al. — preprint
Earth’s atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae
Christoudias et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Cryptic geological histories accessed through entombed and matrix geochronometers in dykes
Kirkland et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Signatures of wave erosion in Titan’s coasts
Palermo et al. — Science Advances
Synthetic life
Genetic encoding and expression of RNA origami cytoskeletons in synthetic cells
Tran et al. — preprint