Talk:Abiogenesis/Sources

This is a list of academic secondary and tertiary sources relevant to Abiogenesis and related articles, compiled by User:Sunrise. It was based on a review of the literature, selecting for the source quality and potential usefulness on Wikipedia. The majority of the list consists of review papers; except for the background section, each entry appears only once, but they may contain useful information on more than one topic due to category overlap. References can be copied from this page directly into the article. I (Sunrise) have full access to all items on this list as of March 2014.

Background

This category is for the convenience of editors who want to learn about the field; it contains a selection of the most useful articles for background information. The entries in this category are reproduced in their actual categories below.

• General overview of abiogenesis: Follmann H, Brownson C (2009). "Darwin's warm little pond revisited: from molecules to the origin of life". Naturwissenschaften. 96 (11): 1265–92. Bibcode:2009NW.....96.1265F. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0602-1. PMID 19760276. S2CID 23259886.

• Extraterrestrial sources of biological molecules: Ehrenfreund P, Cami J (2010). "Cosmic carbon chemistry: from the interstellar medium to the early Earth". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (12): a002097. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002097. PMC 2982172. PMID 20554702.

• Abiotic syntheses of organic molecules: Saladino R, Crestini C, Pino S, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E (2012). "Formamide and the origin of life". Phys Life Rev. 9 (1): 84–104. Bibcode:2012PhLRv...9...84S. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.12.002. hdl:2108/85168. PMID 22196896.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Homochirality: Blackmond DG (2010). "The origin of biological homochirality". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (5): a002147. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002147. PMC 2857173. PMID 20452962.

• Role of physical processes: Budin I, Szostak JW (2010). "Expanding roles for diverse physical phenomena during the origin of life". Annu Rev Biophys. 39: 245–63. doi:10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133753. PMC 4992673. PMID 20192779.

• RNA world: Robertson MP, Joyce GF (2012). "The origins of the RNA world". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 4 (5): a003608. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a003608. PMC 3331698. PMID 20739415.

• Protocells A: Loakes D, Holliger P (2009). "Darwinian chemistry: towards the synthesis of a simple cell". Mol Biosyst. 5 (7): 686–94. doi:10.1039/b904024b. PMID 19562107.

• Protocells B: Schrum JP, Zhu TF, Szostak JW (2010). "The origins of cellular life". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (9): a002212. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002212. PMC 2926753. PMID 20484387.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Specific topics

Conditions on the early Earth

Physical conditions

• Kasting JF (1993). "Earth's early atmosphere". Science. 259 (5097): 920–6. doi:10.1126/science.11536547. PMID 11536547. S2CID 21134564.
• Zahnle K, Schaefer L, Fegley B (2010). "Earth's earliest atmospheres". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (10): a004895. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a004895. PMC 2944365. PMID 20573713.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Sleep NH (2010). "The Hadean-Archaean environment". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (6): a002527. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002527. PMC 2869525. PMID 20516134.
• Lunine JI (2006). "Physical conditions on the early Earth". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 361 (1474): 1721–31. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1900. PMC 1664683. PMID 17008213.

Physical conditions at the origin of life

• Schwartzman DW, Lineweaver CH (2004). "The hyperthermophilic origin of life revisited". Biochem Soc Trans. 32 (Pt 2): 168–71. doi:10.1042/bst0320168. PMID 15046564.
• Martin W, Baross J, Kelley D, Russell MJ (2008). "Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life". Nat Rev Microbiol. 6 (11): 805–14. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1991. PMID 18820700. S2CID 1709272.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Daniel I, Oger P, Winter R (2006). "Origins of life and biochemistry under high-pressure conditions". Chem Soc Rev. 35 (10): 858–75. doi:10.1039/b517766a. PMID 17003893.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Origin of organic molecules

Extraterrestrial origin

• Burton AS, Stern JC, Elsila JE, Glavin DP, Dworkin JP (2012). "Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5459–72. doi:10.1039/c2cs35109a. PMID 22706603.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Pizzarello S, Shock E (2010). "The organic composition of carbonaceous meteorites: the evolutionary story ahead of biochemistry". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (3): a002105. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002105. PMC 2829962. PMID 20300213.
• Pizzarello S (2007). "The chemistry that preceded life's origin: a study guide from meteorites". Chem Biodivers. 4 (4): 680–93. doi:10.1002/cbdv.200790058. PMID 17443883.
• Ehrenfreund P, Cami J (2010). "Cosmic carbon chemistry: from the interstellar medium to the early Earth". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (12): a002097. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002097. PMC 2982172. PMID 20554702.

Chemical mechanisms

• Saladino R, Crestini C, Pino S, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E (2012). "Formamide and the origin of life". Phys Life Rev. 9 (1): 84–104. Bibcode:2012PhLRv...9...84S. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.12.002. hdl:2108/85168. PMID 22196896.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Saladino R, Botta G, Pino S, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E (2012). "From the one-carbon amide formamide to RNA all the steps are prebiotically possible". Biochimie. 94 (7): 1451–6. doi:10.1016/j.biochi.2012.02.018. PMID 22738728.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• McCollom TM, Seewald JS (2007). "Abiotic synthesis of organic compounds in deep-sea hydrothermal environments". Chem Rev. 107 (2): 382–401. doi:10.1021/cr0503660. PMID 17253758.
• Balucani N (2012). "Elementary reactions of N atoms with hydrocarbons: first steps towards the formation of prebiotic N-containing molecules in planetary atmospheres". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5473–83. doi:10.1039/c2cs35113g. PMID 22705670.
• Schwartz AW (2006). "Phosphorus in prebiotic chemistry". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 361 (1474): 1743–9, discussion 1749. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1901. PMC 1664685. PMID 17008215.

Prebiotic chemistry

• Sutherland JD (2010). "Ribonucleotides". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (4): a005439. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a005439. PMC 2845210. PMID 20452951.
• Anastasi C, Buchet FF, Crowe MA, Parkes AL, Powner MW, Smith JM; et al. (2007). "RNA: prebiotic product, or biotic invention?". Chem Biodivers. 4 (4): 721–39. doi:10.1002/cbdv.200790060. PMID 17443885. S2CID 23526930. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Jakschitz TA, Rode BM (2012). "Chemical evolution from simple inorganic compounds to chiral peptides". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5484–9. doi:10.1039/c2cs35073d. PMID 22733315.
• Hughes RA, Robertson MP, Ellington AD, Levy M (2004). "The importance of prebiotic chemistry in the RNA world". Curr Opin Chem Biol. 8 (6): 629–33. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2004.09.007. PMID 15556407.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Longo LM, Blaber M (2012). "Protein design at the interface of the pre-biotic and biotic worlds". Arch Biochem Biophys. 526 (1): 16–21. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2012.06.009. PMID 22772066.
• Danger G, Plasson R, Pascal R (2012). "Pathways for the formation and evolution of peptides in prebiotic environments". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5416–29. doi:10.1039/c2cs35064e. PMID 22688720.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Cleaves HJ, Michalkova Scott A, Hill FC, Leszczynski J, Sahai N, Hazen R (2012). "Mineral-organic interfacial processes: potential roles in the origins of life". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5502–25. doi:10.1039/c2cs35112a. PMID 22743683.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Autocatalysis

• Bissette AJ, Fletcher SP (2013). "Mechanisms of autocatalysis". Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 52 (49): 12800–26. doi:10.1002/anie.201303822. PMID 24127341.
• Kondepudi DK, Asakura K (2001). "Chiral autocatalysis, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and stochastic behavior". Acc Chem Res. 34 (12): 946–54. doi:10.1021/ar010089t. PMID 11747412.
• Paul N, Joyce GF (2004). "Minimal self-replicating systems". Curr Opin Chem Biol. 8 (6): 634–9. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2004.09.005. PMID 15556408.
• Meyer AJ, Ellefson JW, Ellington AD (2012). "Abiotic self-replication". Acc Chem Res. 45 (12): 2097–105. doi:10.1021/ar200325v. PMID 22891822.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kenso Soai (1 January 2008). Amplification of Chirality. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-77869-1.

Origin of homochirality

• Blackmond DG (2010). "The origin of biological homochirality". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (5): a002147. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002147. PMC 2857173. PMID 20452962.
• Plasson R, Kondepudi DK, Bersini H, Commeyras A, Asakura K (2007). "Emergence of homochirality in far-from-equilibrium systems: mechanisms and role in prebiotic chemistry". Chirality. 19 (8): 589–600. doi:10.1002/chir.20440. PMID 17559107.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Soai K, Sato I, Shibata T (2001). "Asymmetric autocatalysis and the origin of chiral homogeneity in organic compounds". Chem Rec. 1 (4): 321–32. doi:10.1002/tcr.1017. PMID 11893072.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Podlech J (2001). "Origin of organic molecules and biomolecular homochirality". Cell Mol Life Sci. 58 (1): 44–60. doi:10.1007/PL00000777. PMID 11229816. S2CID 27520698.

(Also see the entries on chiral autocatalysis in the previous section.)

Protocells / origin of cells

• Jewett MC, Forster AC (2010). "Update on designing and building minimal cells". Curr Opin Biotechnol. 21 (5): 697–703. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2010.06.008. PMC 2952674. PMID 20638265.
• Loakes D, Holliger P (2009). "Darwinian chemistry: towards the synthesis of a simple cell". Mol Biosyst. 5 (7): 686–94. doi:10.1039/b904024b. PMID 19562107.
• Schrum JP, Zhu TF, Szostak JW (2010). "The origins of cellular life". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (9): a002212. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002212. PMC 2926753. PMID 20484387.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Forster AC, Church GM (2006). "Towards synthesis of a minimal cell". Mol Syst Biol. 2: 45. doi:10.1038/msb4100090. PMC 1681520. PMID 16924266.
• Mansy SS, Szostak JW (2009). "Reconstructing the emergence of cellular life through the synthesis of model protocells". Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 74: 47–54. doi:10.1101/sqb.2009.74.014. PMID 19734203.
• Hanczyc MM, Szostak JW (2004). "Replicating vesicles as models of primitive cell growth and division". Curr Opin Chem Biol. 8 (6): 660–4. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2004.10.002. PMID 15556412.
• Hammer DA, Kamat NP (2012). "Towards an artificial cell". FEBS Lett. 586 (18): 2882–90. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2012.07.044. PMID 22841716.
• Meierhenrich UJ, Filippi JJ, Meinert C, Vierling P, Dworkin JP (2010). "On the origin of primitive cells: from nutrient intake to elongation of encapsulated nucleotides". Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 49 (22): 3738–50. doi:10.1002/anie.200905465. PMID 20437432.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Dzieciol AJ, Mann S (2012). "Designs for life: protocell models in the laboratory". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (1): 79–85. doi:10.1039/c1cs15211d. PMID 21952478.
• Murtas G (2013). "Early self-reproduction, the emergence of division mechanisms in protocells". Mol Biosyst. 9 (2): 195–204. doi:10.1039/c2mb25375e. PMID 23232904.

RNA world

• Neveu M, Kim HJ, Benner SA (2013). "The "strong" RNA world hypothesis: fifty years old". Astrobiology. 13 (4): 391–403. doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0868. PMID 23551238.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Robertson MP, Joyce GF (2012). "The origins of the RNA world". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 4 (5): a003608. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a003608. PMC 3331698. PMID 20739415.
• Cech TR (2012). "The RNA worlds in context". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 4 (7): a006742. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a006742. PMC 3385955. PMID 21441585.
• Noller HF (2012). "Evolution of protein synthesis from an RNA world". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 4 (4): a003681. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a003681. PMC 3312679. PMID 20610545.
• Müller UF (2006). "Re-creating an RNA world". Cell Mol Life Sci. 63 (11): 1278–93. doi:10.1007/s00018-006-6047-1. PMID 16649141. S2CID 36021694.
• Cheng LK, Unrau PJ (2010). "Closing the circle: replicating RNA with RNA". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (10): a002204. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002204. PMC 2944364. PMID 20554706.
• Ferris JP (2006). "Montmorillonite-catalysed formation of RNA oligomers: the possible role of catalysis in the origins of life". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 361 (1474): 1777–86, discussion 1786. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1903. PMC 1664692. PMID 17008218.
• Copley SD, Smith E, Morowitz HJ (2007). "The origin of the RNA world: co-evolution of genes and metabolism". Bioorg Chem. 35 (6): 430–43. doi:10.1016/j.bioorg.2007.08.001. PMID 17897696.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Joyce GF (2009). "Evolution in an RNA world". Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 74: 17–23. doi:10.1101/sqb.2009.74.004. PMC 2891321. PMID 19667013.
• Szostak JW (2012). "The eightfold path to non-enzymatic RNA replication" (PDF). J Syst Chem. 3 (2). doi:10.1186/1759-2208-3-2.

Origin of bioenergetics / metabolism

• Lane N, Martin WF (2012). "The origin of membrane bioenergetics". Cell. 151 (7): 1406–16. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.11.050. PMID 23260134.
• Deamer D, Weber AL (2010). "Bioenergetics and life's origins". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (2): a004929. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a004929. PMC 2828274. PMID 20182625.
• Schoepp-Cothenet B, van Lis R, Atteia A, Baymann F, Capowiez L, Ducluzeau AL; et al. (2013). "On the universal core of bioenergetics". Biochim Biophys Acta. 1827 (2): 79–93. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.09.005. PMID 22982447. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Peretó J (2012). "Out of fuzzy chemistry: from prebiotic chemistry to metabolic networks". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5394–403. doi:10.1039/c2cs35054h. PMID 22508108.
• Saladino R, Botta G, Pino S, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E (2012). "Genetics first or metabolism first? The formamide clue". Chem Soc Rev. 41 (16): 5526–65. doi:10.1039/c2cs35066a. PMID 22684046.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Anet FA (2004). "The place of metabolism in the origin of life". Curr Opin Chem Biol. 8 (6): 654–9. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2004.10.005. PMID 15556411.

Books

• Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walter P (2002). "The RNA World and the Origins of Life". Molecular Biology of the Cell 4th ed. New York: Garland Science.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• National Research Council of the National Academies (2007). "Origin of Life". The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. pp. 53–68. doi:10.17226/11919. ISBN 978-0-309-10484-5.
• David W. Deamer; Jack William Szostak (2010). The Origins of Life: A Subject Collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-1-936113-04-0.

Uncategorized

• General overview of the field: Follmann H, Brownson C (2009). "Darwin's warm little pond revisited: from molecules to the origin of life". Naturwissenschaften. 96 (11): 1265–92. Bibcode:2009NW.....96.1265F. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0602-1. PMID 19760276. S2CID 23259886.

• History of abiogenesis research: Lazcano A (2010). "Historical development of origins research". Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2 (11): a002089. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002089. PMC 2964185. PMID 20534710.

• Origin of catalysis: Cech TR (2009). "Evolution of biological catalysis: ribozyme to RNP enzyme". Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 74: 11–6. doi:10.1101/sqb.2009.74.024. PMID 19850851.

• Number of occurrences: Davies PC, Lineweaver CH (2005). "Finding a second sample of life on earth". Astrobiology. 5 (2): 154–63. Bibcode:2005AsBio...5..154D. doi:10.1089/ast.2005.5.154. PMID 15815166.

• Role of physical processes in abiogenesis: Budin I, Szostak JW (2010). "Expanding roles for diverse physical phenomena during the origin of life". Annu Rev Biophys. 39: 245–63. doi:10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133753. PMC 4992673. PMID 20192779.

• Miller-Urey experiment, legacy, and followup experiments: Bada JL (2013). "New insights into prebiotic chemistry from Stanley Miller's spark discharge experiments". Chem Soc Rev. 42 (5): 2186–96. doi:10.1039/c3cs35433d. PMID 23340907.