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Volume 361(1474);  October 29, 2006
Research Articles
Introduction: conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth
Sydney Leach, Ian W.M Smith, and Charles S Cockell
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1675–1679. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1895.
PMCID: PMC1664687
The prebiotic molecules observed in the interstellar gas
P Thaddeus
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1681–1687. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1897.
PMCID: PMC1664676
Prebiotic materials from on and off the early Earth
Max Bernstein
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1689–1702. Published online 2006 September 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1913.
PMCID: PMC1664678
The carbon cycle on early Earth—and on Mars?
Monica M Grady and Ian Wright
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1703–1713. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1898.
PMCID: PMC1664679
Searching for signatures of life on Mars: an Fe-isotope perspective
M Anand, S.S Russell, R.L Blackhurst, and M.M Grady
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1715–1720. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1899.
PMCID: PMC1664681
Physical conditions on the early Earth
Jonathan I Lunine
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1721–1731. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1900.
PMCID: PMC1664683
Atmospheric composition and climate on the early Earth
James F Kasting and M. Tazewell Howard
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1733–1742. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1902.
PMCID: PMC1664689
Phosphorus in prebiotic chemistry
Alan W Schwartz
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1743–1749. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1901.
PMCID: PMC1664685
Transcription and translation in an RNA world
William R Taylor
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1751–1760. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1910.
PMCID: PMC1664686
The origin of replicators and reproducers
Eörs Szathmáry
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1761–1776. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1912.
PMCID: PMC1664675
Montmorillonite-catalysed formation of RNA oligomers: the possible role of catalysis in the origins of life
James P Ferris
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1777–1786. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1903.
PMCID: PMC1664692
From volcanic origins of chemoautotrophic life to Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya
Günter Wächtershäuser
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1787–1808. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1904.
PMCID: PMC1664677
Self-assembly processes in the prebiotic environment
David Deamer, Sara Singaram, Sudha Rajamani, Vladimir Kompanichenko, and Stephen Guggenheim
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1809–1818. Published online 2006 September 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1905.
PMCID: PMC1664680
Early anaerobic metabolisms
Don E Canfield, Minik T Rosing, and Christian Bjerrum
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1819–1836. Published online 2006 September 8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1906.
PMCID: PMC1664682
Hyperthermophiles in the history of life
Karl O Stetter
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1837–1843. Published online 2006 September 8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1907.
PMCID: PMC1664684
The origin and emergence of life under impact bombardment
Charles S Cockell
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1845–1856. Published online 2006 September 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1908.
PMCID: PMC1664688
Implications of a 3.472–3.333 Gyr-old subaerial microbial mat from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa for the UV environmental conditions on the early Earth
Frances Westall, Cornel E.J de Ronde, Gordon Southam, Nathalie Grassineau, Maggy Colas, Charles Cockell, and Helmut Lammer
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1857–1876. Published online 2006 September 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1896.
PMCID: PMC1664690
Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth: summary and reflections
Joshua Jortner
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 October 29; 361(1474): 1877–1891. Published online 2006 September 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1909.
PMCID: PMC1664691
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