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55	Article: Coupled Phases and Combinatorial Selection in Fluctuating Hydrothermal Pools: A Scenario to Guide Experimental Approaches to the Origin of Cellular Life by Bruce Damer and David Deamer
45	Review: Role of Cyanobacterial Exopolysaccharides in Phototrophic Biofilms and in Complex Microbial Mats by Federico Rossi and Roberto De Philippis
43	Review: Mitigating Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Human- and Climatically-Impacted World by Hans W. Paerl
42	Review: Halophilic Bacteria as a Source of Novel Hydrolytic Enzymes by María de Lourdes Moreno, Dolores Pérez, María Teresa García and Encarnación Mellado
42	Review: Regulation of CO₂ Concentrating Mechanism in Cyanobacteria by Robert L. Burnap, Martin Hagemann and Aaron Kaplan
38	Article: Occurrence of Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Diverse Cyanobacteria by Fei Gan, Gaozhong Shen and Donald A. Bryant
38	Article: Evolution of Microbial “Streamer” Growths in an Acidic, Metal-Contaminated Stream Draining an Abandoned Underground Copper Mine by Catherine M. Kay, Owen F. Rowe, Laura Rocchetti, Kris Coupland, Kevin B. Hallberg and D. Barrie Johnson
30	Review: tRNA-Derived Fragments (tRFs): Emerging New Roles for an Ancient RNA in the Regulation of Gene Expression by Simon P. Keam and Gyorgy Hutvagner
30	Review: Space Radiation: The Number One Risk to Astronaut Health beyond Low Earth Orbit by Jeffery C. Chancellor, Graham B. I. Scott and Jeffrey P. Sutton
29	Article: Disk Evolution, Element Abundances and Cloud Properties of Young Gas Giant Planets by Christiane Helling, Peter Woitke, Paul B. Rimmer, Inga Kamp, Wing-Fai Thi and Rowin Meijerink

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3	Review: Insights into Abiotically-Generated Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excesses Found in Meteorites by Aaron S. Burton and Eve L. Berger
1	Article: Global Molecular Diversity of the Halotolerant Fungus Hortaea werneckii by Alessia Marchetta, Bert Gerrits van den Ende, Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi, Ferry Hagen, Polona Zalar, Montarop Sudhadham, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Clara Urzì, Sybren de Hoog and Filomena De Leo
1	Article: Cystobasidium alpinum sp. nov. and Rhodosporidiobolus oreadorum sp. nov. from European Cold Environments and Arctic Region by Benedetta Turchetti, Laura Selbmann, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Pietro Buzzini, José Paulo Sampaio and Polona Zalar
1	Review: Mineral Surface-Templated Self-Assembling Systems: Case Studies from Nanoscience and Surface Science towards Origins of Life Research by Richard J. Gillams and Tony Z. Jia

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4	Review: Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems by András Szilágyi, István Zachar, István Scheuring, Ádám Kun, Balázs Könnyű and Tamás Czárán
3	Review: Insights into Abiotically-Generated Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excesses Found in Meteorites by Aaron S. Burton and Eve L. Berger
2	Review: The Impact of Salts on Single Chain Amphiphile Membranes and Implications for the Location of the Origin of Life by Sarah Maurer
2	Review: Reporting Key Features in Cold-Adapted Bacteria by Paula M. Tribelli and Nancy I. López
2	Perspective: Potential Role of Inorganic Confined Environments in Prebiotic Phosphorylation by Avinash Vicholous Dass, Maguy Jaber, André Brack, Frédéric Foucher, Terence P. Kee, Thomas Georgelin and Frances Westall
2	Article: Hydrogen Bonds and Life in the Universe by Giovanni Vladilo and Ali Hassanali
2	Article: Formation and Stability of Prebiotically Relevant Vesicular Systems in Terrestrial Geothermal Environments by Manesh Prakash Joshi, Anupam Samanta, Gyana Ranjan Tripathy and Sudha Rajamani
2	Article: Prebiotic RNA Network Formation: A Taxonomy of Molecular Cooperation by Cole Mathis, Sanjay N. Ramprasad, Sara Imari Walker and Niles Lehman
1	Concept Paper: What Does “the RNA World” Mean to “the Origin of Life”? by Wentao Ma
1	Article: Global Molecular Diversity of the Halotolerant Fungus Hortaea werneckii by Alessia Marchetta, Bert Gerrits van den Ende, Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi, Ferry Hagen, Polona Zalar, Montarop Sudhadham, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Clara Urzì, Sybren de Hoog and Filomena De Leo

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16	Review: The Role of Lipid Membranes in Life’s Origin by David Deamer
7	Opinion: Piecemeal Buildup of the Genetic Code, Ribosomes, and Genomes from Primordial tRNA Building Blocks by Derek Caetano-Anollés and Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
6	Review: Small and Random Peptides: An Unexplored Reservoir of Potentially Functional Primitive Organocatalysts. The Case of Seryl-Histidine by Rafal Wieczorek, Katarzyna Adamala, Tecla Gasperi, Fabio Polticelli and Pasquale Stano
5	Article: Selection of Prebiotic Molecules in Amphiphilic Environments by Christian Mayer, Ulrich Schreiber and María J. Dávila
5	Concept Paper: Frozen Accident Pushing 50: Stereochemistry, Expansion, and Chance in the Evolution of the Genetic Code by Eugene V. Koonin
5	Article: *Arsenite as an Electron Donor for Anoxygenic Photosynthesis: Description of Three Strains of Ectothiorhodospira* from Mono Lake, California and Big Soda Lake, Nevada** by Shelley Hoeft McCann, Alison Boren, Jaime Hernandez-Maldonado, Brendon Stoneburner, Chad W. Saltikov, John F. Stolz and Ronald S. Oremland
4	Review: Cryosphere and Psychrophiles: Insights into a Cold Origin of Life? by Georges Feller
4	Review: Cyanobacteria as Chassis for Industrial Biotechnology: Progress and Prospects by Lamya Al-Haj, Yuen Tin Lui, Raeid M.M. Abed, Mohamed A. Gomaa and Saul Purton
4	Article: *Screening of a Haloferax volcanii* Transposon Library Reveals Novel Motility and Adhesion Mutants** by Georgio Legerme, Evan Yang, Rianne N. Esquivel, Saija Kiljunen, Harri Savilahti and Mechthild Pohlschroder
4	Review: A Chemist’s Perspective on the Role of Phosphorus at the Origins of Life by Christian Fernández-García, Adam J. Coggins and Matthew W. Powner

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30	Review: tRNA-Derived Fragments (tRFs): Emerging New Roles for an Ancient RNA in the Regulation of Gene Expression by Simon P. Keam and Gyorgy Hutvagner
16	Review: The Role of Lipid Membranes in Life’s Origin by David Deamer
13	Review: Multiple Layers of Stress-Induced Regulation in tRNA Biology by Hsiao-Yun Huang and Anita K. Hopper
13	Review: The tRNA Elbow in Structure, Recognition and Evolution by Jinwei Zhang and Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré
12	Article: Dry/Wet Cycling and the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Prebiotic Polymer Synthesis by David S. Ross and David Deamer
10	Article: Coevolution Theory of the Genetic Code at Age Forty: Pathway to Translation and Synthetic Life by J. Tze-Fei Wong, Siu-Kin Ng, Wai-Kin Mat, Taobo Hu and Hong Xue
10	Review: Non-Standard Genetic Codes Define New Concepts for Protein Engineering by Ana R. Bezerra, Ana R. Guimarães and Manuel A. S. Santos
9	Review: Assessing the Ecophysiology of Methanogens in the Context of Recent Astrobiological and Planetological Studies by Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Christa Schleper, Maria G. Firneis and Simon K.-M. R. Rittmann
8	Article: Functional Annotations of Paralogs: A Blessing and a Curse by Rémi Zallot, Katherine J. Harrison, Bryan Kolaczkowski and Valérie de Crécy-Lagard
8	Review: From Prebiotics to Probiotics: The Evolution and Functions of tRNA Modifications by Katherine M. McKenney and Juan D. Alfonzo

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70398	Article: Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life by Erik D. Andrulis
11141	Review: Is Life Unique? by David L. Abel
10162	Editorial: Publication of Controversial Papers in Life by Shu-Kun Lin
9099	Communication: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and Its Potential as a Life-Sustaining Solvent in a Planetary Environment by Nediljko Budisa and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
9058	Article: Approaches to the Origin of Life on Earth by Stuart A. Kauffman
7592	Article: Coupled Phases and Combinatorial Selection in Fluctuating Hydrothermal Pools: A Scenario to Guide Experimental Approaches to the Origin of Cellular Life by Bruce Damer and David Deamer
6895	Essay: The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life by William Bains and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
6228	Review: Evolutionary Steps in the Emergence of Life Deduced from the Bottom-Up Approach and GADV Hypothesis (Top-Down Approach) by Kenji Ikehara
5706	Essay: Primal Eukaryogenesis: On the Communal Nature of Precellular States, Ancestral to Modern Life by Richard Egel
5655	Editorial: *Opening up Peer Review in Life: Towards a Transparent and Reliable Process* by Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto

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1813	Article: Molecular Evolution in a Peptide-Vesicle System by Christian Mayer, Ulrich Schreiber, María J. Dávila, Oliver J. Schmitz, Amela Bronja, Martin Meyer, Julia Klein and Sven W. Meckelmann
1362	Review: Mineral Surface-Templated Self-Assembling Systems: Case Studies from Nanoscience and Surface Science towards Origins of Life Research by Richard J. Gillams and Tony Z. Jia
1096	Article: Amphiphilic Compounds Assemble into Membranous Vesicles in Hydrothermal Hot Spring Water but Not in Seawater by Daniel Milshteyn, Bruce Damer, Jeff Havig and David Deamer
1037	Article: Cystobasidium alpinum sp. nov. and Rhodosporidiobolus oreadorum sp. nov. from European Cold Environments and Arctic Region by Benedetta Turchetti, Laura Selbmann, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Pietro Buzzini, José Paulo Sampaio and Polona Zalar
1005	Article: Comet Pond II: Synergistic Intersection of Concentrated Extraterrestrial Materials and Planetary Environments to Form Procreative Darwinian Ponds by Benton C. Clark and Vera M. Kolb
980	Review: Fungal Diversity in Lichens: From Extremotolerance to Interactions with Algae by Lucia Muggia and Martin Grube
963	Article: Sun Exposure Shapes Functional Grouping of Fungi in Cryptoendolithic Antarctic Communities by Claudia Coleine, Laura Zucconi, Silvano Onofri, Nuttapon Pombubpa, Jason E. Stajich and Laura Selbmann
937	Technical Note: phylotaR: An Automated Pipeline for Retrieving Orthologous DNA Sequences from GenBank in R by Dominic J. Bennett, Hannes Hettling, Daniele Silvestro, Alexander Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, Søren Faurby, Rutger A. Vos and Alexandre Antonelli
890	Review: Insights into Abiotically-Generated Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excesses Found in Meteorites by Aaron S. Burton and Eve L. Berger
850	Article: Caveats to Exogenous Organic Delivery from Ablation, Dilution, and Thermal Degradation by Chris Mehta, Anthony Perez, Glenn Thompson and Matthew A. Pasek

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2167	Article: Cloning and Molecular Characterization of an Alpha-Glucosidase (MalH) from the Halophilic Archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi by Mara F. Cuebas-Irizarry, Ricardo A. Irizarry-Caro, Carol López-Morales, Keyla M. Badillo-Rivera, Carlos M. Rodríguez-Minguela and Rafael Montalvo-Rodríguez
1919	Article: Kin Selection in the RNA World by Samuel R. Levin and Stuart A. West
1813	Article: Molecular Evolution in a Peptide-Vesicle System by Christian Mayer, Ulrich Schreiber, María J. Dávila, Oliver J. Schmitz, Amela Bronja, Martin Meyer, Julia Klein and Sven W. Meckelmann
1705	Perspective: Origin of the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid (rTCA) Cycle-Type CO₂ Fixation: A Perspective by Norio Kitadai, Masafumi Kameya and Kosuke Fujishima
1688	Article: Hydrogen Bonds and Life in the Universe by Giovanni Vladilo and Ali Hassanali
1576	Article: Chemical Transformations in Proto-Cytoplasmic Media. Phosphorus Coupling in the Silica Hydrogel Phase by Ian B. Gorrell, Timothy W. Henderson, Kamal Albdeery, Philip M. Savage and Terence P. Kee
1448	Review: Hydrothermal Microflow Technology as a Research Tool for Origin-of-Life Studies in Extreme Earth Environments by Kunio Kawamura
1362	Review: Mineral Surface-Templated Self-Assembling Systems: Case Studies from Nanoscience and Surface Science towards Origins of Life Research by Richard J. Gillams and Tony Z. Jia
1297	Article: Prebiotic RNA Network Formation: A Taxonomy of Molecular Cooperation by Cole Mathis, Sanjay N. Ramprasad, Sara Imari Walker and Niles Lehman
1288	Article: A Statistical Approach to Illustrate the Challenge of Astrobiology for Public Outreach by Frédéric Foucher, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Frances Westall and André Brack

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4295	Article: Selection of Prebiotic Molecules in Amphiphilic Environments by Christian Mayer, Ulrich Schreiber and María J. Dávila
4047	Review: The Genetic Code and RNA-Amino Acid Affinities by Michael Yarus
3515	Review: DNA Protection Protein, a Novel Mechanism of Radiation Tolerance: Lessons from Tardigrades by Takuma Hashimoto and Takekazu Kunieda
2946	Review: Nitrogenous Derivatives of Phosphorus and the Origins of Life: Plausible Prebiotic Phosphorylating Agents in Water by Megha Karki, Clémentine Gibard, Subhendu Bhowmik and Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy
2714	Article: Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals Archaeal tRNA^Tyr and tRNA^Trp Identities in Bacteria by Takahito Mukai, Noah M. Reynolds, Ana Crnković and Dieter Söll
2334	Review: The Role of Lipid Membranes in Life’s Origin by David Deamer
2279	Review: Homocysteine Editing, Thioester Chemistry, Coenzyme A, and the Origin of Coded Peptide Synthesis † by Hieronim Jakubowski
2223	Opinion: Piecemeal Buildup of the Genetic Code, Ribosomes, and Genomes from Primordial tRNA Building Blocks by Derek Caetano-Anollés and Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
2167	Article: Cloning and Molecular Characterization of an Alpha-Glucosidase (MalH) from the Halophilic Archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi by Mara F. Cuebas-Irizarry, Ricardo A. Irizarry-Caro, Carol López-Morales, Keyla M. Badillo-Rivera, Carlos M. Rodríguez-Minguela and Rafael Montalvo-Rodríguez
2126	Article: Thermal Condensation of Glycine and Alanine on Metal Ferrite Surface: Primitive Peptide Bond Formation Scenario by Md. Asif Iqubal, Rachana Sharma, Sohan Jheeta and Kamaluddin

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6895	Essay: The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life by William Bains and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
6228	Review: Evolutionary Steps in the Emergence of Life Deduced from the Bottom-Up Approach and GADV Hypothesis (Top-Down Approach) by Kenji Ikehara
5575	Essay: A Field Trip to the Archaean in Search of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond by Bruce Damer
4295	Article: Selection of Prebiotic Molecules in Amphiphilic Environments by Christian Mayer, Ulrich Schreiber and María J. Dávila
4171	Review: Origins and Early Evolution of the tRNA Molecule by Koji Tamura
4047	Review: The Genetic Code and RNA-Amino Acid Affinities by Michael Yarus
3699	Concept Paper: Titan as the Abode of Life by Christopher P. McKay
3515	Review: DNA Protection Protein, a Novel Mechanism of Radiation Tolerance: Lessons from Tardigrades by Takuma Hashimoto and Takekazu Kunieda
2988	Review: tRNA-Derived Fragments (tRFs): Emerging New Roles for an Ancient RNA in the Regulation of Gene Expression by Simon P. Keam and Gyorgy Hutvagner
2946	Review: A Self-Assembled Aggregate Composed of a Fatty Acid Membrane and the Building Blocks of Biological Polymers Provides a First Step in the Emergence of Protocells by Roy A. Black and Matthew C. Blosser

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