Origin of Life Digest
This week we have 3 preprints and 4 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Land Fraction Diversity on Earth-like Planets and Implications for their Habitability – Höning et al. – preprint
A New Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective on the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis – Stevenson – Astrobiology
Biology
Inducible transcriptional condensates drive 3D genome reorganization in the heat shock response – Chowdhary et al. – Molecular Cell
Survivor bias drives overestimation of stability in reconstructed ancestral proteins – Thomas et al. – preprint
Geochemistry
Diverse geochemical conditions for prebiotic chemistry in shallow-sea alkaline hydrothermal vents – Barge et al. – Nature Geoscience
Biogeochemistry of Recently Fossilized Siliceous Hot Spring Sinters from Yellowstone, USA – Teece et al. – Astrobiology
Quantum Physics
Can vacuum select chirality in chemical reactions? – Ke et al. – preprint