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Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light.

Mulkidjanian AY, Cherepanov DA, Galperin MY.

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Montmorillonite protection of an UV-irradiated hairpin ribozyme: evolution of the RNA world in a mineral environment.

Biondi E, Branciamore S, Maurel MC, Gallori E.

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Physico-chemical and evolutionary constraints for the formation and selection of first biopolymers: towards the consensus paradigm of the abiogenic origin of life.

Mulkidjanian AY, Galperin MY.

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Looking for the primordial genetic honeycomb.

Gallori E, Biondi E, Branciamore S.

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Monte Carlo simulation of early molecular evolution in the RNA World.

Ma W, Yu C, Zhang W.

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On the origin of the translation system and the genetic code in the RNA world by means of natural selection, exaptation, and subfunctionalization.

Wolf YI, Koonin EV.

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On the origin of life in the zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth.

Mulkidjanian AY.

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Origin of life. A simpler nucleic acid.

Orgel L.

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Importance of biologically active aurora-like ultraviolet emission: stochastic irradiation of Earth and Mars by flares and explosions.

Smith DS, Scalo J, Wheeler JC.

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Molecular beacon probes of photodamage in thymine and uracil oligonucleotides.

Yarasi S, McConachie C, Loppnow GR.

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[Prebiotic phosphate: a problem insoluble in water ? ]

Morchio R, Traverso S.

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The influence of UV radiation on protistan evolution.

Rothschild LJ.

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Biological space experiments for the simulation of Martian conditions: UV radiation and Martian soil analogues.

Rettberg P, Rabbow E, Panitz C, Horneck G.

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Intercalation-mediated synthesis and replication: a new approach to the origin of life.

Hud NV, Anet FA.

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A model for the role of short self-assembled peptides in the very early stages of the origin of life.

Carny O, Gazit E.

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Ozone concentrations and ultraviolet fluxes on Earth-like planets around other stars.

Segura A, Krelove K, Kasting JF, Sommerlatt D, Meadows V, Crisp D, Cohen M, Mlawer E.

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Sonochemistry on primordial Earth--its potential role in prebiotic molecular evolution.

Ben-Amots N, Anbar M.

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Entropy and charge in molecular evolution--the case of phosphate.

Arrhenius G, Sales B, Mojzsis S, Lee T.

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Origin of life. Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules.

Bada JL, Lazcano A.

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A new photoactive building block for investigation of DNA backbone interactions: photoaffinity labeling of human DNA polymerase beta.

Liebmann M, Di Pasquale F, Marx A.

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