Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 2006: Vol 36 Index & Table of Contents

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VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 36
Vol. 36 Nos. 1-6 December 2006
R. SCORE! and V. M. CIMPOIASU / Boron Enhances the Thermostability of
Carbohydrates
H. CHRIS GREENWELL and PETER V. COVENEY / Layered Double Hydroxide
Minerals as Possible Prebiotic Information Storage and Transfer
Compounds
HEATHER D. BEAN, FRANK A. L. ANET, IAN R. GOULD and NICHOLAS V.
HUD / Glyoxylate as a Backbone Linkage for a Prebiotic Ancestor of
RNA
VICENTE MARCANO, PEDRO BENITEZ and ERNESTO PALACIOS-PRU
UV-Screening Strategies of a Lower Eukaryote Grown in Hydrocarbon
Media
DAVID DEAMER / Life in the Universe. Expectations and Constraints
AHMED |. RUSHDI and BERND R. T. SIMONEIT / Abiotic Condensation
Synthesis of Glyceride Lipids and Wax Esters Under Simulated
Hydrothermal Conditions
PETER WALDE / Surfactant Assemblies and their Various Possible Roles for the
Origin(S) of Life
MEIR LAHAV, ISABELLE WEISSBUCH, EDNA SHAVIT, CLARISSA
REINER, GRAEME J. NICHOLSON and VOLKER SCHURIG / Parity
Violating Energetic Difference and Enantiomorphous Crystalsp-Caveats;
Reinvestigation of Tyrosine Crystallization
PEDRO BARGUENO and ISABEL GONZALO Effect of Cosmological
Neutrinos on Discrimination Between the Two Enantiomers of a Chiral
Molecule
ANTHONIE W. J. MULLER and DIRK SCHULZE-MAKUCH / Thermal Energy
and the Origin of Life
Abstracts of Issol 2005, the 14th International Conference on the Origin of Life,
Held in Beijing, from June 19-24, 2005
SHIN MIYAKAWA, PRAKASH C. JOSHI, MICHAEL J. GAFFEY, ELENA
GONZALEZ-TORIL, CALLEN HYLAND, TERESA ROSS, KRISTIN
RYBIJ and JAMES P. FERRIS / Studies in the Mineral and Salt-Catalyzed
Formation of RNA Oligomers
RODOLPHE POLLET, CHRISTIAN BOEHME and DOMINIK MARX / AB
INITIO Simulations of Desorption and Reactivity of Glycine at a Water-
Pyrite Interface at “Iron-Sulfur World” Prebiotic Conditions
RICHARD A. GOLDSTEIN / Emergent Robustness in Competition Between
Autocatalytic Chemical Networks
PETER SCHMIDT / Evolution of Homochirality by Epimerization of Random
Peptide Chains. A Stochastic Model
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WENTAO MA and CHUNWU YU / Intramolecular RNA replicase: Possibly the
first self-replicating molecule in the RNA world 413
JAMES HURY, UMA NAGASWAMY, MAIA LARIOS-SANZ and GEORGE E
FOX / Ribosome origins: The relative age of 23S rRNA Domains 421
EDITORIAL NOTI
A. W. SCHWARTZ
INTRODUCTION
JOHN ROBERT BRUCATO, ERNESTO DI MAURO, GIOVANNI STRAZZULLA
and RAFFAELE SALADINO / Introduction to the Special Issue
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
V. AQUILANTI and G. S. MACIEL / Observed Molecular Alignment in Gaseous
Streams and Possible Chiral Effects in Vortices and in Surface Scattering
NADIA BALUCANI and PIERGIORGIO CASAVECCHIA / Gas-Phase Reactions
in Extraterrestrial Environments: Laboratory Investigations by Crossed
Molecular Beams
J. R. BRUCATO, G. STRAZZULLA, G. A. BARATTA, A. ROTUNDI and
L. COLANGELI / Cryogenic Synthesis of Molecules of Astrobiological
Interest: Catalytic Role of Cosmic Dust Analogues
LUCIANO CAGLIOTI, ORSOLY A HOLCZKNECHT, NORIKO FUJII, CLAUDIA
ZUCCHI and GYULA PALYI/ Astrobiology and Biological Chirality
FRANCO CATALDO / Polyynes and Cyanopolyynes: Their Synthesis with the
Carbon Arc Gives the Same Abundances Occurring in Carbon-Rich Stars
FRANCO CATALDO, JOHN ROBERT BRUCATO and YEGHIS KEHEYAN
y-Radiation Induced Polymerization of a Chiral Monomer: A New Way to
Produce Chiral Amplification
BEATRICE COBUCCI-PONZANO, MOSE ROSSI and MARCO MORACCI
Interrupted Genes in Extremophilic Archaea: Mechanisms of Gene
Expression in Early Organisms
ENZO GALLORI, ELISA BIONDI and SERGIO BRANCIAMORE / Looking for
the Primordial Genetic Honeycomb
MARCELO GLEISER and JOEL THORARINSON / Prebiotic Homochirality as a
Critical Phenomenon
A. C. LEVASSEUR-REGOURD, J. LASUE and E. DESVOIVRES / Early Inner
Solar System Impactors: Physical Properties of Comet Nuclei and Dust
Particles Revisited
JOAN D. OLIVER and RANDALL S. PERRY / Definitely Life but not Definitively
RAFFAELE SALADINO, CLAUDIA CRESTINI, FABIANA CICIRIELLO,
GIOVANNA COSTANZO and ERNESTO DI MAURO / About a
Formamide-Based Origin of Informational Polymers: Syntheses of
Nucleobases and Favourable Thermodynamic Niches for Early Polymers
VOLUME CONTENTS
RANDALL S. PERRY and WILLIAM K. HARTMANN / Mars Primordial Crust:
Unique Sites for Investigating Proto-biologic Properties
GIOVANNA TINETTI / Characterizing Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets with
Reflected, Emitted and Transmitted Spectra
ANDREW TRAVERS / The Evolution of the Genetic Code Revisited
EDWARD N. TRIFONOV / Self-inflicted Fear of Evolution
EDWARD N. TRIFONOV, IDAN GABDANK, DANNY BARASH and
YEHOSHUA SOBOLEVSKY Primordia Vita. Deconvolution from
Modern Sequences.
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
GIORGIO ADAMI / National Workshop on Astrobiology: The Life Science
Involvement of AAS—I Laben
FRANCESCO SAVERIO AMBESI IMPIOMBATO, FRANCESCO CURCIO,
ANTONELLA MELI and ANNA MARIA ZAMBITO / Fresh New Air in
Space? ‘MoMa’ on the A.S.I. Launch Pad
E. BATTISTELLI, P. FALCIANI, P. MAGNANI, B. MIDOLLINI, G. PRETI and
E. RE / Galileo Avionica’s Technologies and Instruments for Planetary
Exploration
G. G. BENTINI, M. BIANCONI, A. CERUTTI, A. NUBILE, P. CERABOLINI, M.
CHIARINI, G. PENNESTRI, W. DINICOLANTONIO and R. GUZZ1I/ A
New Miniaturised Optical System for Chemical Species Spectroscopic
Detection Based on a Scanning Integrated Mach—Zehnder Microinterfer-
ometer on LiNbO;
PIER LUIGI LUISI, CRISTIANO CHIARABELLI and PASQUALE STANO
From Never Born Proteins to Minimal Living Cells: Two Projects in
Synthetic Biology
POSTERS
PETER R. BAHN, ARISTOTEL PAPPELIS and JOHN BOZZOLA / Protocell-like
Microspheres from Thermal Polyaspartic Acid
ARMANDO BLANCO, MARCELLA D’ELIA, DOMENICO LICCHELLI,
VINCENZO OROFINO and SERGIO FONTI / Studies of Biominerals
Relevant to the Search for Life on Mars
BRENDAN P. BURNS, FRANCESCO POMATI, FALICIA GOH, SERHAT A.
YASAR and BRETT A. NEILAN / Stromatolites as a Resource for Novel
Natural Products
G. GALLETTA, F. FERRI, G. FANTI, M. DDALESSANDRO, G. BERTOLONI, D.
PAVARIN, C. BETTANINI, P. COZZA, P. PRETTO, G. BIANCHINI
and S. DEBE! / S.A.M.., the Italian Martian Simulation Chamber