OoL digest — September 22
This week we have 14 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Deep microbial colonization during impact-generated hydrothermal circulation at the Lappajärvi impact structure, Finland
Gustafsson et al. — Nature Communications
Multiple Episodes of Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Indicated by MIST Mineral Identifications in PIXL XRF Data From the First 1100 Sols of the Mars 2020 Mission
Moreland et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Desorption of Terrestrial Noble Gases in Mars 2020 Sample Tubes: Implications for Mars Sample Return
Osterhout et al. — Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems
Chen et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A massive primordial atmosphere on early Mars
Joiret et al. — preprint
The evolution of complex organic molecules during star formation
Marchand et al. — preprint
Astrometric Methods for Detecting Exomoons Orbiting Imaged Exoplanets: Prospects for Detecting Moons Orbiting a Giant Planet in $α$ Centauri A's Habitable Zone
Wagner et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record
Alvarez-Carreño — Genome Biology and Evolution
Thermal Decomposition and Prebiotic Formation of Adenosine Phosphates in Simulated Early-Earth Evaporative Settings
Gull et al. — Molecules
Tracing the Origin of the Genetic Code and Thermostability to Dipeptide Sequences in Proteomes
Wang et al. — Journal of Molecular Biology
Mathematical Biology
Large Differences Between Stochastic and Deterministic Kinetics in a Simple Autocatalytic Reaction Network
Bednarek et al. — preprint
Planetary Sciences
Diversity in planetary architectures from pebble accretion: Water delivery to the habitable zone with pebble snow
McCloat et al. — preprint
Sub-Neptunes Are Drier than They Seem: Rethinking the Origins of Water-rich Worlds
Werlen et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Synthetic Biology
Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models
King et al. — preprint