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Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization

If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical "standard models" even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet?  Scientists are hindered by conceptual gaps between bottom...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Egel, Richard (Editor ), Lankenau, Dirk-Henner (Editor ), Mulkidjanian, Armen Y. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Energy as the Common Denominator: Energetics of the First Life
  • A Hypothesis for a Unified Mechanism of Formation and Enantioenrichment of Polyols and Aldaric, Aldonic, Amino, Hydroxy and Sugar Acids in Carbonaceous Chondrites
  • On the Origin of Phosphorylated Biomolecules
  • Abiotic Photosynthesis: From Prebiotic Chemistry to Metabolism
  • Salt-Induced Peptide Formation in Chemical Evolution: Building Blocks before RNA - Potential of Peptide Splicing Reactions
  • Scenario of the Primary Pump: Emergence and Operation of an Automatic Engine to Generate Primordial Peptides and Beyond Nucleic Acids
  • The Relevance of Peptides that Bind FeS Clusters, Phosphate Groups, Cations or Anions for Prebiotic Evolution
  • Peptide-Dominated Vesicles: Bacterial Internal Membrane Compartments as Model Systems for Prebiotic Evolution
  • Nicotinamide Coenzyme Synthesis: a Case of Ribonucleotide Emergence or a Byproduct of the RNA World?- On Alternative Biological Scenarios for the Evolutionary Transitions to DNA and Biological Protein Synthesis
  • Two RNA Worlds: Toward the Origin of Replication, Genes, Recombination and Repair
  • Integrative Perspectives: In Quest of a Coherent Framework for Origins of Life on Earth.