Keyword

prebiotic evolution

Description: Prebiotic evolution is the emergence and development of organized chemical or biological systems before life arose, studied in origins-of-life research.

Primary topic: Origins and Evolution of Life (71%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/prebiotic-evolution

The antiquity of RNA-based evolution

2002 · Gerald F. Joyce · Nature · 1,069

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

2013 · Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Carlos Briones, et al. · Chemical Reviews · 929

Autocatalytic sets of proteins

1986 · Stuart A. Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 738

Inorganic polyphosphate: toward making a forgotten polymer unforgettable

1995 · A Kornberg · Journal of Bacteriology · 583

A Self‐Replicating Hexadeoxynucleotide

1986 · Günter von Kiedrowski · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 582

Coenzymes as fossils of an earlier metabolic state

1976 · Harold B. White · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 491

Artificial Chemistries—A Review

2001 · Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, et al. · Artificial Life · 424

Aqueous Phase Separation as a Possible Route to Compartmentalization of Biological Molecules

2012 · Christine D. Keating · Accounts of Chemical Research · 415

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Trapping of DNA by Thermophoretic Depletion and Convection

2002 · Dieter Braun, Albert Libchaber · Physical Review Letters · 415

Directed evolution of polymerase function by compartmentalized self-replication

2001 · Farid J. Ghadessy, Jennifer L. Ong, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 398

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Volcanic production of polyphosphates and its relevance to prebiotic evolution

1991 · Y. Yamagata, H. Watanabe, et al. · Nature · 372

Inorganic polyphosphate in the origin and survival of species

2004 · Michael R. W. Brown, Arthur Kornberg · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 327

Lipid vesicles as possible intermediates in the origin of life

1999 · Pier Luigi Luisi, Peter Walde, et al. · Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science · 288

Substrate-assisted catalysis of peptide bond formation by the ribosome

2004 · Joshua S Weinger, K Mark Parnell, et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 278

The theory of evolution and dynamical systems: mathematical aspects of selection

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 243

Organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites, planetary satellites, asteroids and comets

1988 · John R. Cronin, Sandra Pizzarello, et al. · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 237

Lotka-Volterra equation and replicator dynamics: A two-dimensional classification

1983 · Immanuel M. Bomze · Biological Cybernetics · 220

Origins of Life

1999 · Freeman Dyson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 219

The origin of replicators and reproducers

2006 · Eörs Szathmáry · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 198

Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism

2020 · Joana C. Xavier, Wim Hordijk, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 195

The second genetic code

1988 · Christian de Duve · Nature · 195

The Phylogeny of tRNA Sequences Provides Evidence for Ambiguity Reduction in the Origin of the Genetic Code

1987 · W.M. Fitch, K. Upper · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology · 184

Expanding Roles for Diverse Physical Phenomena During the Origin of Life

2010 · Itay Budin, Jack W. Szostak · Annual Review of Biophysics · 171

Inorganic Polyphosphate: A Molecule of Many Functions

1999 · A. Kornberg · Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 166

A Proposed Model for Interaction of Polypeptides with RNA

1974 · Charles W. Carter, Joseph Kraut · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 162

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