The hot spring hypothesis for an origin of life

B Damer, D Deamer - Astrobiology, 2020‏ - liebertpub.com
We present a testable hypothesis related to an origin of life on land in which fluctuating
volcanic hot spring pools play a central role. The hypothesis is based on experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record

CF Demoulin, YJ Lara, L Cornet, C François… - Free Radical Biology …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria played an important role in the evolution of Early Earth and the biosphere.
They are responsible for the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans since the Great …

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

TA Williams, PG Foster, CJ Cox, TM Embley - Nature, 2013‏ - nature.com
The discovery of the Archaea and the proposal of the three-domains 'universal'tree, based
on ribosomal RNA and core genes mainly involved in protein translation, catalysed new …

Ecological and evolutionary forces sha** microbial diversity in the human intestine

RE Ley, DA Peterson, JI Gordon - Cell, 2006‏ - cell.com
The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the
microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host …

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

C Dupraz, RP Reid, O Braissant, AW Decho… - Earth-Science …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Microbial mats are ecosystems that arguably greatly affected the conditions of the biosphere
on Earth through geological time. These laminated organosedimentary systems, which date …

Global patterns in bacterial diversity

CA Lozupone, R Knight - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2007‏ - pnas.org
Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

[کتاب][B] Dynamic energy budget theory for metabolic organisation

SALM Kooijman - 2010‏ - books.google.com
" Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a formal theory for the uptake and use of
substrates (food, nutrients and light) by organisms and their use for maintenance, growth …

Beyond the bacterium: planctomycetes challenge our concepts of microbial structure and function

JA Fuerst, E Sagulenko - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011‏ - nature.com
Planctomycetes form a distinct phylum of the domain Bacteria and possess unusual features
such as intracellular compartmentalization and a lack of peptidoglycan in their cell walls …

Biosignature preservation and detection in Mars analog environments

LE Hays, HV Graham, DJ Des Marais, EM Hausrath… - Astrobiology, 2017‏ - liebertpub.com
This review of material relevant to the Conference on Biosignature Preservation and
Detection in Mars Analog Environments summarizes the meeting materials and discussions …

The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs

K Wolfe, TM Kenyon, PJ Mumby - Coral Reefs, 2021‏ - Springer
Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and
dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases today, the reduction in habitat complexity …