OoL digest — May 26
This week we have 23 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Rethinking Habitability using Biogenic Precursors: Formaldehyde in Millimeter Molecular Clouds of the Inner Galaxy
Baharin et al. — preprint
OSIRIS-REx Operational Key Decision Points: A Retrospective
Burns et al. — preprint
Abiotic Ozone in the Observable Atmospheres of Venus and Venus-like Exoplanets
Calder et al. — preprint
A Complex Systems Approach to Exoplanet Atmospheric Chemistry: New Prospects for Ruling Out the Possibility of Alien Life As We Know It
Fisher et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Insufficient evidence for DMS and DMDS in the atmosphere of K2-18 b. From a joint analysis of JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec, and MIRI observations
Luque et al. — preprint
Revisiting the bimodality of galactic habitability in IllustrisTNG
Mitrašinović et al. — preprint
Life after death: Europa in the evolving Habitable Zone of a Red Sun
Mullens et al. — preprint
Retention of surface water on tidally locked rocky planets in the Venus zone around M dwarfs
Ouyang et al. — preprint
Modern Earth-like Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures Are Challenging To Constrain Through Spectroscopic Retrievals
Young et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
A battle against arsenic toxicity by Earth’s earliest complex life forms
El Khoury et al. — Nature Communications
Permeability selection of biologically relevant membranes matches the stereochemistry of life on Earth
Goode et al. — PLOS Biology
Active redox cycling of phosphorus on the early Earth
Hao et al. — Nature Communications
A Potentially Prebiotic Synthesis of a 3′-Amino-3′-deoxyribonucleoside
Sammons et al. — preprint
Origin of homochirality in peptides: The first milestone at the origin of life
Toxvaerd — BioSystems
Biology
What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life
Bender et al. — preprint
Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota
Zhang et al. — Nature
Biophysics
Autocatalytic symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in a feedback network combining amino acid synthesis and ligation
Higgs et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microbiology
A close unicellular relative reveals aggregative multicellularity was key to the evolution of animals
Li et al. — preprint
Evolutionary origins of self-sustained Kai protein circadian oscillators in cyanobacteria
Mukaiyama et al. — Nature Communications
Planetary Sciences
Streaks on martian slopes are dry
Bickel et al. — Nature Communications
Rapid rise of early ocean pH under elevated weathering rates
Guo et al. — Nature Geoscience
The Link Between Subsurface Rheology and Ejecta Mobility: The Case of Small New Impacts on Mars
Sokolowska et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Ultraviolet and biological effective dose observations at Gale Crater, Mars
Viúdez-Moreiras et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences