OoL digest — March 3
This week we have 17 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Rate-induced biosphere collapse in the Daisyworld model
Arnscheidt et al. — Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Molecular Cloud Biology
Feng — preprint
Preservation of Extracellular Sheaths Produced by Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria: An Analog for Potential Morphological Biosignatures on Mars
Hirsch et al. — Astrobiology
Ancient ocean coastal deposits imaged on Mars
Li et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A Potential Mushy Source for the Geysers of Enceladus and Other Icy Satellites
Meyer et al. — Geophysical Research Letters
Recovery of Lipid Biomarkers in Hot Spring Digitate Silica Sinter as Analogs for Potential Biosignatures on Mars: Results from Laboratory and Flight-Like Experiments
Millan et al. — Astrobiology
The brine shrimp Artemia franciscana as a model for astrobiological studies: Physiological adaptations to Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions
Muscari Tomajoli et al. — Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology
The search for ancient life on Mars using morphological and mass spectrometric analysis: an analog study in detecting microfossils in Messinian gypsum
Sellam et al. — Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative to Main-sequence Exoplanets
Shields et al. — The Astrophysical Journal
Submicron-scale detection of microbes and smectite from the interior of a Mars-analogue basalt sample by optical-photothermal infrared spectroscopy
Suzuki et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology
Detection of ferrihydrite in Martian red dust records ancient cold and wet conditions on Mars
Valantinas et al. — Nature Communications
Biochemistry
A novel quinone biosynthetic pathway illuminates the evolution of aerobic metabolism
Elling et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The evolution of complexity and the transition to biochemical life
Gagrani et al. — preprint
Biophysics
On the Origin of Information Dynamics in Early Life
Gatenby et al. — Life
Chemistry
Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry
Matreux et al. — Nature Communications
Geosciences
Anomalous δ15N values in the Neoarchean associated with an abundant supply of hydrothermal ammonium
Martin et al. — Nature Communications
Large closed-basin lakes sustainably supplied phosphate during the origins of life
Walton et al. — Science Advances