Open Questions on the Origin of Life at Anoxic Geothermal Fields

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Molecular Interactions That Stabilize RNA Tertiary Structure: RNA Motifs, Patterns, and Networks

(2011) Samuel E. Butcher et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research

(2011) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Serpentinite and the dawn of life

(2011) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Formamide and the origin of life

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Guanine, Adenine, and Hypoxanthine Production in UV-Irradiated Formamide Solutions: Relaxation of the Requirements for Prebiotic Purine Nucleobase Formation

(2010) Hannah L. Barks  et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

The hydrogeochemistry of thermal springs on Mutnovskii Volcano, southern Kamchatka

(2010) S. B. Bortnikova et al.   Journal of Volcanology and Seismology

History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures

(2010) C. L. Dupont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prebiotic Metabolism: Production by Mineral Photoelectrochemistry of α-Ketocarboxylic Acids in the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle

(2009) Marcelo I. Guzman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian   Biology Direct

Detection of Geothermal Phosphite Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

(2009) Herbe Pech et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA

(2009) Konstantin Bokov et al.   NATURE

The evolving ribosome: from non-coded peptide bond formation to sophisticated translation machinery

(2009) Chen Davidovich et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Origin of Life on Earth

(2009) Alonso Ricardo et al.   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Co-evolution of primordial membranes and membrane proteins

(2009) Armen Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions

(2008) Michelle Hopkins et al.   NATURE

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE