Dang good paper

All right, Larry Moran, why did you post about this paper now? I finished the unit on the origins of life in my cell biology class over a week ago, and this summary of the metabolism first model of abiogenesis would have been very helpful. I first gave them a review of redox reactions in chemistry, and then some general ideas about events in deep sea vents that generate a source of energy that early chemistry could have tapped, but this paper is full of specifics -- probably a bit too heavy going for college sophomores, but they could have appreciated some of the diagrams.

Like this one:

abiogenesis

Also…the paper is open access! Everyone go read!

Sousa, F.L., Thiergart, T., Landan, G., Nelson-Sathi, S., Pereira, I. A., Allen, J.F., Lane, N. and Martin, W.F. (2013) Early bioenergetic evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368:20130088. [doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0088]

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Very good article.I just saw it and will follow your feeds.hdeutschland

By Angela Merkel (not verified) on 05 Oct 2014 #permalink

Thank you for posting this link. A great article that I would have otherwise missed.

By Pliny the in Between (not verified) on 10 Oct 2014 #permalink