ArticleHFSP journal2007
The origin of modern terrestrial life.
Article in HFSP journal, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Femtoplankton: What's New?Viruses · 2020Review
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- Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions.Astrobiology · 2018Review
- Functional linkage between genes that regulate osmotic stress responses and multidrug resistance transporters: challenges and opportunities for antibiotic discovery.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2014Review
- The evolutionary origin of biological function and complexity.Journal of molecular evolution · 2013Article
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- Defining life: the virus viewpoint.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2010Article
- An overview of the introns-first theory.Journal of molecular evolution · 2009Article
- The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses in the living world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2009Article
- Phylogenomics of DNA topoisomerases: their origin and putative roles in the emergence of modern organisms.Nucleic acids research · 2009Review
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Abstract
The study of the origin of life covers many areas of expertise and requires the input of various scientific communities. In recent years, this research field has often been viewed as part of a broader agenda under the name of "exobiology" or "astrobiology." In this review, we have somewhat narrowed this agenda, focusing on the origin of modern terrestrial life. The adjective "modern" here means that we did not speculate on different forms of life that could have possibly appeared on our planet, but instead focus on the existing forms (cells and viruses). We try to briefly present the state of the art about alternative hypotheses discussing not only the origin of life per se, but also how life evolved to produce the modern biosphere through a succession of steps that we would like to characterize as much as possible.
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