Did life originate from a global chemical reactor?

The Canonical Network of Autotrophic Intermediary Metabolism: Minimal Metabolome of a Reductive Chemoautotroph

(2016) Vijayasarathy Srinivasan et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements

(2016) Harold J. Morowitz et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Mineralogical aspects of CO2 sequestration during hydrothermal basalt alteration — An experimental study at 75 to 250°C and elevated pCO2

(2012) Alexander P. Gysi et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The significance of Mg in prebiotic geochemistry

(2012) N. G. HOLM   Geobiology

Life in the hydrated suboceanic mantle

(2012) Bénédicte Ménez et al.   Nature Geoscience

Isotope composition and volume of Earth's early oceans

(2012) E. C. Pope et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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 ineluctable requirement for the trans-iron elements molybdenum and/or tungsten in the origin of life

(2012) Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet et al.   Scientific Reports

Formation of Nucleobases from Formamide in the Presence of Iron Oxides: Implication in Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life

(2011) Uma Shanker et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Pumice as a Remarkable Substrate for the Origin of Life

(2011) Martin D. Brasier et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

NON-RACEMIC AMINO ACID PRODUCTION BY ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION OF ACHIRAL INTERSTELLAR ICE ANALOGS WITH CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT

(2011) Pierre de Marcellus et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A late methanogen origin for molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase

(2011) E. S. BOYD et al.   Geobiology

Frost flowers growing in the Arctic ocean-atmosphere-sea ice-snow interface: 1. Chemical composition

(2011) Thomas A. Douglas et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Metal flux from hydrothermal vents increased by organic complexation

(2011) Sylvia G. Sander et al.   Nature Geoscience

Borate Minerals and Origin of the RNA World

(2011) Edward S. Grew et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Early Archean serpentine mud volcanoes at Isua, Greenland, as a niche for early life

(2011) M.-L. Pons et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Surface-Generated Mesoscale Eddies Transport Deep-Sea Products from Hydrothermal Vents

(2011) D. K. Adams et al.   SCIENCE

Alternative Pathways of Carbon Dioxide Fixation: Insights into the Early Evolution of Life?

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Design, Fabrication, and Test of a Hydrothermal Reactor for Origin-of-Life Experiments

(2010) Randall E. Mielke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

The evolution and functional repertoire of translation proteins following the origin of life

(2010) Aaron D Goldman et al.   Biology Direct

Hadean crustal evolution revisited: New constraints from Pb–Hf isotope systematics of the Jack Hills zircons

(2010) A.I.S. Kemp et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mineral Environments on the Earliest Earth

(2010) D. Papineau   Elements

Mineral Evolution: Mineralogy in the Fourth Dimension

(2010) R. M. Hazen et al.   Elements

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

Faint young Sun redux

(2010) James F. Kasting   NATURE

A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry

(2010) Douglas L. Theobald   NATURE

Microbial metalloproteomes are largely uncharacterized

(2010) Aleksandar Cvetkovic et al.   NATURE

Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

(2010) Ivan A. Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Highly alkaline, high-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the early Archean ocean

(2010) Takazo Shibuya et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

High molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite revealed 40 years after its fall

(2010) P. Schmitt-Kopplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fractal Organic Hazes Provided an Ultraviolet Shield for Early Earth

(2010) E. T. Wolf et al.   SCIENCE

The Origin of Life

(2009) James Trefil et al.   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Microbial Provinces in the Subseafloor

(2009) Matthew O. Schrenk et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Inorganic Nitrogen Reduction and Stability under Simulated Hydrothermal Conditions

(2009) Jay A. Brandes et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Formation of Uracil from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in Pure H2O Ices

(2009) Michel Nuevo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microbial genesis, life and death in glacial iceThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

(2009) P. Buford Price   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Reduction of nitrogen compounds in oceanic basement and its implications for HCN formation and abiotic organic synthesis

(2009) Nils G Holm et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

(2009) Susan Q. Lang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Pore space percolation in sea ice single crystals

(2009) D. J. Pringle et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Formation of Protocell-like Vesicles in a Thermal Diffusion Column

(2009) Itay Budin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The first peptides: The evolutionary transition between prebiotic amino acids and early proteins

(2009) Peter van der Gulik et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Mud volcanism: Processes and implications

(2009) A. Mazzini   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

Mineral evolution

(2008) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

(2008) Nicolas Glansdorff et al.   Biology Direct

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

Early (≥4.5 Ga) formation of terrestrial crust: Lu–Hf, δ18O, and Ti thermometry results for Hadean zircons

(2008) T. Mark Harrison et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Episodic, mafic crust formation from 4.5 to 2.8 Ga: New evidence from detrital zircons, Slave craton, Canada

(2008) A.B. Pietranik et al.   GEOLOGY

On the forcing mechanism for the H2-driven deep biosphere

(2008) Helge Hellevang   International Journal of Astrobiology

Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins

(2008) Eric A. Gaucher et al.   NATURE

Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

(2008) M. Hutnak et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

(2008) A. P. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE

Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?

(2008) Anne-Lise Ducluzeau et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES