OoL digest — September 2 edition
This week we have 11 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Biochemistry
Covariation of hot spring geochemistry with microbial genomic diversity, function, and evolution
Colman et al. — Nature Communications
CatReNet: Interactive analysis of (auto-) catalytic reaction networks
Huson et al. — Bioinformatics
Biology
EdgeHOG: fine-grained ancestral gene order inference at tree-of-life scale
Bernard et al. — preprint
Chemistry
Reactions Driven by Primitive Nonbiological Polyesters
Poddar et al. — Accounts of Chemical Research
Geoscience
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor
Sweetman et al. — Nature Geoscience
Physics
Stability distillation hypothesis for the origin of life
Bi — preprint
Assembly Theory Reduced to Shannon Entropy and Rendered Redundant by Naive Statistical Algorithms
Ozelim et al. — preprint
Planetary sciences
Investigating the Linkage Between Spiral Trough Morphology and Cloud Coverage on the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits
Lutz et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Water Evolution & Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M Dwarfs
Moore et al. — preprint
Variations in plume activity reveal the dynamics of water-filled faults on Enceladus
Souček et al. — Nature Communications
Synthetic biology
Temporally controlled multistep division of DNA droplets for dynamic artificial cells
Maruyama et al. — Nature Communications