Universal Sequence Replication, Reversible Polymerization and Early Functional Biopolymers: A Model for the Initiation of Prebiotic Sequence Evolution

Comparison of the Roles of Nucleotide Synthesis, Polymerization, and Recombination in the Origin of Autocatalytic Sets of RNAs

(2011) Meng Wu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Evolution of Enzyme Specificity in the Metabolic Replicator Model of Prebiotic Evolution

(2011) Balázs Könnyű et al.   PLoS One

Ribozyme-Catalyzed Transcription of an Active Ribozyme

(2011) A. Wochner et al.   SCIENCE

A Simple Template-Dependent Ligase Ribozyme as the RNA Replicase Emerging First in the RNA World

(2010) Wentao Ma et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Complexity through Recombination: From Chemistry to Biology

(2010) Niles Lehman et al.   Entropy

Emergence of Self-Reproduction in Cooperative Chemical Evolution of Prebiological Molecules

(2010) Maya Fishkis   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Multiple translational products from a five-nucleotide ribozyme

(2010) R. M. Turk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intercalation as a means to suppress cyclization and promote polymerization of base-pairing oligonucleotides in a prebiotic world

(2010) E. D. Horowitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Primitive Genetic Polymers

(2010) A. E. Engelhart et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Mineral Surfaces, Geochemical Complexities, and the Origins of Life

(2010) R. M. Hazen et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The emergence of patterning in lifes origin and evolution

(2009) Robert M. Hazen   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Origin of Self-Replicating Biopolymers: Autocatalytic Feedback Can Jump-Start the RNA World

(2009) Meng Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The basic reproductive ratio of life

(2009) Michael L. Manapat et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Self-Assembling Sequence-Adaptive Peptide Nucleic Acids

(2009) Yasuyuki Ura et al.   SCIENCE

Multilevel Selection in Models of Prebiotic Evolution II: A Direct Comparison of Compartmentalization and Spatial Self-Organization

(2009) Nobuto Takeuchi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Prebiotic replicase evolution in a surface-bound metabolic system: parasites as a source of adaptive evolution

(2008) Balázs Könnyű et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eutectic Phase in Water-Ice: A Self-Assembled Environment Conducive to Metal-Catalyzed Non-Enzymatic RNA Polymerization

(2008) Pierre-Alain Monnard et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY