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ArticleScientific reports2024

Life on Earth can grow on extraterrestrial organic carbon.

Annemiek C Waajen, Cassio Lima, Royston Goodacre, Charles S Cockell

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Annemiek C WaajenUK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. annemiek.waajen@ed.ac.uk.
Cassio LimaCentre for Metabolomics Research, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Royston GoodacreCentre for Metabolomics Research, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Charles S CockellUK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

EPSRC-SFI EP/V042882/1NERC Doctoral Training Partnership NE/L002558/1NERC Environmental Omics Facility NE/V003860/1Science and Technology Facilities Council ST/V000586/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The universe is a vast store of organic abiotic carbon that could potentially drive heterotrophy on habitable planets. Meteorites are one of the transporters of this carbon to planetary surfaces. Meteoritic material was accumulating on early Earth when life emerged and proliferated. Yet it is not known if this organic carbon from space was accessible to life. In this research, an anaerobic microbial community was grown with the CM2 carbonaceous chondrite Aguas Zarcas as the sole carbon, energy and nutrient source. Using a reversed

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CarbonMeteoroidsEarth, PlanetExtraterrestrial EnvironmentPlanetsCarbon

Identifiers

PMID38355968
PMCPMC10866878

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