Prebiotic evolution and astrobiology
By: [edited by] J. Tze-Fei Wong, Antonio Lazcano.
Contributors: Wong, J. Tze-Fei; Lazcano, Antonio.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587063305
Subjects: Life -- Origin; Exobiology; Biomolecules; RNA; Interstellar matter; Evolution, Molecular; Biogenesis; Exobiology; RNA -- genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The minimal cell / Markus Pech and Knud H. Nierhaus; title: Planetary astrobiology : the outer solar system / François Raulin; title: Mars, the astrobiological target of the 21st century? / Patrice Coll and Fabien Stalport; title: Comets and astrobiology / Hervø Cottin and Didier Despois; title: Meteorites and the chemistry that preceded life's origin / Sandra Pizzarello; title: Chirality, homochirality, and the order of biomolecular interactions / Sandra Pizzarello; title: The primitive Earth / James F. Kasting; title: Biomolecules / J. Tze-Fei Wong; title: The dawn of the RNA world : RNA polymerization from monoribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions / Pierre Alain Monnard; title: Ribozymes and the evolution of metabolism / Randall A. Hughes and Andrew D. Ellington; title: Precellular evolution : vesicles and protocells / Pasquale Stano and Pier Luigi Luisi; title: Split genes, ancestral genes / Massimo Di Giulio; title: Genetic code / J. Tze-Fei Wong; title: Root of life / J. Tze-Fei Wong.