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Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (2005) 35: 609-61 1 © Springer 2005 VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 35 Vol. 35 Nos. 1-6 December 2005 PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY R. M. DE GRAAF and A. W. SCHWARTZ / Thermal Synthesis of Nucleoside H-Phosphonates Under Mild Conditions CHANGXUELIN, HUA FU, YUFEN ZHAO and CHANGMEI CHENG / Syn- thesis of Nucleoside N-Phosphoamino Acids and Peptide Formation PROTEIN EVOLUTION E. J. MILNER-WHITE and M. J. RUSSELL / Sites for Phosphates and Iron- Sulfur Thiolates in the First Membranes: 3 to 6 Residue Anion-Binding Motifs (Nests) 19-27 ASTROBIOLOGY P. W. LUCAS, J. H. HOUGH, J. BAILEY, A. CHRYSOSTOMOU, T. M. GLEDHILL and A. McCALL / UV Circular Polarisation in Star For- 29-60 mation Regions: The Origin of Homochirality 61-74 BOOK REVIEWS 75-77 Instructions for Authors CHEMICAL EVOLUTION EDUARDO BORQUEZ, H. JAMES CLEAVES, ANTONIO LAZCANO and STANLEY L. MILLER / An Investigation of Prebiotic Purine Synthesis from the Hydrolysis of HCN Polymers 79-90 L. PEREZGASGA, A. SERRATO-DIAZ, A.N EGRON-MENDOZLA., D E PABLO GALAN and F. G. MOSQUEIRA / Sites of Adsorption of Ade- nine, Uracil, and Their Corresponding Derivatives on Sodium Montmo- rillonite 91-110 BARAK SHENHAV, ARREN BAR-EVEN, RAN KAFRI and DORON LANCET / Polymer GARD: Computer Simulation of Covalent Bond Formation in Reproducing Molecular Assemblies 111-133 ALEXANDER VLASSOV / itow was Membrane Permeability Produced in an RNA World? 135-149 ADDY PROSS / On the Emergence of Biological Complexity: Life as a Kinetic State of Matter 151-166 CHIRALITY ATSUSHI NEMOTO, MINAKO HORIE, EI-ICHI IMAI, HAJIME HONDA, KUNIYUKI HATORI and KOICHIRO MATSUNO/ Enantiomeric Ex- cess of Amino Acids in Hydrothermal Environments 167-174 610 VOLUME CONTENTS EVOLUTION OF THE BIOSPHERE PURNIMA SRIVASTAVA / Vindhyan Akinites: An Indicator of Mesoprotero- zoic Biospheric Evolution 175-185 CHEMICAL EVOLUTION KONG-JIANG WANG and JAMES P. FERRIS / Catalysis and Selectivity in Prebiotic Synthesis: Initiation of the Formation of Oligo(U)S on Montmorillonite Clay by Adenosine-5’-methylphosphate 187-212 KAZUOMI OSAWA, HIDEHITO URATA and HIROAKI SAWAI / Chiral Selection in Oligoadenylate Formation in the Presence of a Metal lon Catalyst or Poly(U) Template CHIRALITY A. BRANDENBURG, A.C. ANDERSEN, S. HOFNER and M. NILSSON / Homochiral Growth through Enantiomeric Cross-Inhibition 225-241 JONATHAN A.D. WATTIS and PETER V. COVENEY / Symmetry-Breaking in Chiral Polymerisation 243-273 GENETIC CODE ORIGINS CHI MING YANG / On the Structural Regularity in Nucleobases and Amino Acids and Relationship to the Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code 275-295 In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Joan “John” Oro (1923-2004) 297-298 CHEMICAL EVOLUTION DAVID P. SUMMERS / Ammonia Formation by the Reduction of Nitrite/nitrate by FeS: Ammonia Formation under Acidic Conditions 299-312 KONG-JIANG WANG, NAN YAO and CHEN LI/ Sodium Chloride Enhanced Oligomerization of L-Glutamic Acid in Aqueous Solution 313-322 CHARLES L. APEL and DAVID W. DEAMER / The Formation of Glycerol Monodecanoate by a Dehydration/Condensation Reaction: Increasing the Chemical Complexity of Amphiphiles on the Early Earth 323-332 RYO FURUUCHI, EI-ICHI IMAI, HAJIME HONDA, KUNIYUKI HATORI and KOICHIRO MATSUNO / Evolving Lipid Vesicles in Prebiotic Hydrothermal Environments 333-343 NIGEL AYLWARD and NEVILLE BOFINGER / Possible Origin for Porphin Derivatives in Prebiotic Chemistry — A Computational Study 345-368 GIDEON FLEMINGER, TAL YARON, MIRIAM EISENSTEIN and AKIVA BAR-NUN / The Structure and Synthetic Capabilities of a Catalytic Peptide Formed by Substrate-Directed Mechanism — Implications to Prebiotic Catalysis 369-382 CHIRALITY ADDY PROSS / On the Chemical Nature and Origin of Teleonomy 383-394 VOLUME CONTENTS 611 RNA WORLD MARTIN A. LINE / A Hypothetical Pathway from the RNA to the DNA World 395—400 DELPHINE NNA-MVONDO, RAFAEL NAVARRO-GONZALEZ, FRANCOIS RAULIN and PATRICE COLL / Nitrogen Fixation by Corona Discharge on the Early Precambrian Earth 401-409 KRISTOF PLANKENSTEINER, HANNES REINER and BERND M. RODE / Catalytically Increased Prebiotic Peptide Formation: Ditryp- tophan, Dilysine, and Diserine 411-419 ARTHUR L. WEBER / Aqueous Synthesis of Peptide Thioesters from Amino 421-427 Acids and a Thiol Using 1,1'-Carbonyldiimidazole HAUKE TRINKS, WOLFGANG SCHRODER and CHRISTOF K. 429-445 BIEBRICHER / Ice and the Origin of Life TAKAE OBA, JUN FUKUSHIMA, MASAKO MARUYAMA, RYOKO IWAMOTO and KENJI IKEHARA / Catalytic Activities of [GADV]- Peptides 447460 FRANCESCO FAGLIONI, ALESSIO PASSALACQUA and PAOLO LAZZERETTI/ Parity Violation Energy of Biomolecules — I: Polypep- tides 461-475 ANTIGONA SEGURA and RAFAEL NAVARRO-GONZALEZ/ Production of Low Molecular Weight Hydrocarbons by Volcanic Eruptions on Early Mars 477-487 S. E. JORGE VILLAR, H. G. M.E DWARDS and M. R. WORLAND / Com- parative Evaluation of Raman Spectroscopy at Different Wavelengths for Extremophile Exemplars 489-506 CHIRALITY A. BRANDENBURG, A. C. ANDERSEN and M. NILSSON / Dissociation in a Polymerization Model of Homochirality 507-521 PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY ARTHUR L. WEBER / Growth of Organic Microspherules in Sugar-Ammonia Reactions 523-536 PHYLOGENY LUIS DELAYE, ARTURO BECERRA and ANTONIO LAZCANO / The Last Common Ancestor: What’s in a Name? 537-554 ASTROBIOLOGY GUILLERMO GONZALEZ / Habitable Zones in the Universe 555-606 BOOK REVIEW DAVID DEAMER / Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life 607-608