Библиография

Диброва Д., Гальперин М., Кунин Е., Мулкиджанян А. Древние системы натрий-калиевого гомеостаза клетки как предшественники мембранной биоэнергетики // Биохимия, 2015. Т. 80. Вып. 5. С. 590–611.

Еськов К. Удивительная палеонтология: История Земли и жизни на ней. М., 2007.

Кунин Е. Логика случая. О природе и происхождении биологической эволюции. М., 2014.

Марков А., Куликов А. Гомологичные белковые домены в надцарствах Archaea, Bacteria и Eukaryota и проблема происхождения эвкариот // Известия Российской академии наук. Серия биологическая. 2005. № 4. 389–400.

Марков А., Куликов А. Происхождение эвкариот: выводы из анализа белковых гомологий в трех надцарствах живой природы // Палеонтологический журнал. 2005. № 4. С. 3–18.

Марков А., Куликов А. Происхождение эукариот как результат интеграционных процессов в микробном сообществе (http://evolbiol.ru/dok_ibr2009.htm)

Acevedo O. L. & Orgel L. E. Non-enzymatic transcription of an oligodeoxynucleotide 14 residues long // Journal of Molecular Biology, 1987, vol. 197, pp. 187–193. DOI: 10.1016/0022–2836(87)90117–3

Adamala K. & Szostak J. W. Competition between model protocells driven by an encapsulated catalyst // Nature Chemistry, 2013, vol. 5, pp. 495–501. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1650

Adamala K. et al. Open questions in origin of life: experimental studies on the origin of nucleic acids and proteins with specific and functional sequences by a chemical synthetic biology approach // Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2014, vol. 9. DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201402004

Attwater J., Wochner A. & Holliger P. In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity // Nature Chemistry, 2013, vol. 5, pp. 1011–1018. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1781

Baaske P. et al. Extreme accumulation of nucleotides in simulated hydrothermal pore systems // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, vol. 104, pp. 9346–9351. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609592104

Bailey S., Wing R. A. & Steitz T. A. The Structure of T. aquaticus DNA Polymerase III Is Distinct from Eukaryotic Replicative DNA Polymerases // Cell, 2006, vol. 126, pp. 893–904. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.027

Bali S. et al. Molecular hijacking of siroheme for the synthesis of heme and d1 heme // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011, vol. 108, pp. 18260–18265. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108228108

Bar-Even A., Noor E., Flamholz A. & Milo R. Design and analysis of metabolic pathways supporting formatotrophic growth for electricity-dependent cultivation of microbes // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 1039–1047. DOI: 10.1016/j. bbabio.2012.10.013

Barry R. D. The multiplication of influenza virus: II. Multiplicity reactivation of ultraviolet irradiated virus // Virology, 1961, vol. 14, pp. 398–405. DOI: 10.1016/0042–6822(61)90330–0

Baum D. A. & Baum B. An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell // BMC Biology, 2014, vol. 12, p. 76. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2

Baymann, F. et al. The redox protein construction kit: pre-last universal common ancestor evolution of energy-conserving enzymes // Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 2003, vol. 358, pp. 267–274. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1184

Baymann, F., Brugna, M., Mühlenhoff, U. & Nitschke, W. Daddy, where did (PS) I come from? // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2001, vol. 1507, pp. 291–310. DOI: 10.1016/S0005–2728(01)00209–2

Bell, P. J. L. The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis: a key role for viruses in the emergence of eukaryotes from a prokaryotic world environment // Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, vol. 1178, 91–105. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749–6632.2009.04994.x

Bell, P. J. Viral eukaryogenesis: was the ancestor of the nucleus a complex DNA virus? // Journal of molecular evolution, 2001, vol. 53, pp. 251–256. DOI: 10.1007/s002390010215

Bell, P. J. L. Sex and the eukaryotic cell cycle is consistent with a viral ancestry for the eukaryotic nucleus // Journal of theoretical biology, 2006, vol. 243, pp. 54–63. DOI: 10.1016/j. jtbi.2006.05.015

Benner, S. A., Kim, H.-J., Kim, M.-J. & Ricardo, A. Planetary Organic Chemistry and the Origins of Biomolecules // Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2010, vol. 2, p. a003467. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a003467

Benner, S. A., Kim, H.-J. & Carrigan, M. A. Asphalt, water, and the prebiotic synthesis of ribose, ribonucleosides, and RNA // Accounts of Chemical Research, 2012, vol. 45, pp. 2025–2034. DOI: 10.1021/ar200332w

Benner, S. A., Ricardo, A. & Carrigan, M. A. Is there a common chemical model for life in the universe? // Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2004, vol. 8, pp. 672–689. DOI: 10.1016/j. cbpa.2004.10.003

Bernhardt, H. S. & Sandwick, R. K. Purine Biosynthetic Intermediate-Containing Ribose-Phosphate Polymers as Evolutionary Precursors to RNA // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2014, vol. 1–14. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-014-9640-1

Bokov, K. & Steinberg, S. V. A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA // Nature, 2009, vol. 457, pp. 977–980. DOI: 10.1038/nature07749

Borowska, Z. & Mauzerall, D. Photoreduction of carbon dioxide by aqueous ferrous ion: An alternative to the strongly reducing atmosphere for the chemical origin of life // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1988, vol. 85, pp. 6577–6580.

Bortnikova, S. B., Gavrilenko, G. M., Bessonova, E. P. & Lapukhov, A. S. The hydrogeochemistry of thermal springs on Mutnovskii Volcano, southern Kamchatka // Journal of Volcanology and Seismology, 2010, vol. 3, pp. 388–404. DOI: 10.1134/S0742046309060025

Braakman, R. & Smith, E. The Emergence and Early Evolution of Biological Carbon-Fixation // PLoS Computational Biology, 2012, vol. 8. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002455

Breslow, R. & Cheng, Z.-L. L-amino acids catalyze the formation of an excess of D-glyceraldehyde, and thus of other D sugars, under credible prebiotic conditions // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, vol. 107, pp. 5723–5725. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001639107

Breslow, R. & Levine, M. S. Amplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditions // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 12979–12980. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605863103

Breslow, R. The origin of homochirality in amino acids and sugars on prebiotic earth // Tetrahedron Letters, 2011, vol. 52, pp. 4228–4232. DOI: 10.1016/j. tetlet.2011.06.002

Briones, C., Stich, M. & Manrubia, S. C. The dawn of the RNA World: Toward functional complexity through ligation of random RNA oligomers // RNA, 2009, vol. 15, pp. 743–749. DOI: 10.1261/rna.1488609

Buchanan, B. B. & Arnon, D. I. A reverse KREBS cycle in photosynthesis: consensus at last // Photosynthesis Research, 1990, vol. 24, pp. 47–53.

Budisa, N. & Schulze-Makuch, D. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and Its Potential as a Life-Sustaining Solvent in a Planetary Environment // Life, 2014, vol. 4, pp. 331–340. DOI: 10.3390/life4030331

Cahová, H., Winz, M.-L., Höfer, K., Nübel, G. & Jäschke, A. NAD captureSeq indicates NAD as a bacterial cap for a subset of regulatory RNAs // Nature advance online publication, 2014. DOI: 10.1038/nature14020

Canup, R. M. & Asphaug, E. Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation // Nature, 2001, vol. 412, pp. 708–712. DOI: 10.1038/35089010

Canup, R. M. & Ward, W. R. A common mass scaling for satellite systems of gaseous planets // Nature, 2006, vol. 441, pp. 834–839. DOI: 10.1038/nature04860

Canup, R. M. Origin of Saturn/'s rings and inner moons by mass removal from a lost Titan-sized satellite // Nature, 2010, vol. 468, pp. 943–946. DOI: 10.1038/nature09661

Cardona, T., Murray, J. W. & Rutherford, A. W. Origin and Evolution of Water Oxidation before the Last Common Ancestor of the Cyanobacteria // Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2015, vol. 32, pp. 1310–1328 (2015). DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv024

Carter Jr., C. W. & Duax, W. L. Did tRNA Synthetase Classes Arise on Opposite Strands of the Same Gene? // Molecular Cell, 2002, vol. 10, pp. 705–708 (2002). DOI: 10.1016/S1097–2765(02)00688–3

Carter, C. W. et al. The Rodin-Ohno hypothesis that two enzyme superfamilies descended from one ancestral gene: an unlikely scenario for the origins of translation that will not be dismissed // Biology Direct, 2014, vol. 9, pp. 11. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-9-11

Cernak, P. & Sen, D. A thiamin-utilizing ribozyme decarboxylates a pyruvate-like substrate. Nature Chemistry, 2013, vol. 5, pp. 971–977. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1777

Chen, J. & Strous, M. Denitrification and aerobic respiration, hybrid electron transport chains and co-evolution // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 136–144. DOI: 10.1016/j. bbabio.2012.10.002

Chen, X., Li, N. & Ellington, A. D. Ribozyme Catalysis of Metabolism in the RNA World // Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 633–655. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790055

Chinnapen, D. J.-F. & Sen, D. A deoxyribozyme that harnesses light to repair thymine dimers in DNA // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004, vol. 101, pp. 65–69. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0305943101

Chrysostomou, A. et al. Polarimetry of young stellar objects — III. Circular polarimetry of OMC-1 // Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000, vol. 312, pp. 103–115. DOI: 10.1046/j. 1365–8711.2000.03126.x

Cleaves II, H. J. The prebiotic geochemistry of formaldehyde // Precambrian Research, 2008, vol. 164, pp. 111–118. DOI: 10.1016/j. precamres. 2008.04.002

Cleaves, H. J. & Miller, S. L. The Nicotinamide Biosynthetic Pathway Is a By-Product of the RNA World // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2001, vol. 52, pp. 73–77. DOI: 10.1007/s002390010135

Connerney, J. E. P. et al. Tectonic implications of Mars crustal magnetism // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005, vol. 102, pp. 14970–14975. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507469102

Copley, S. D., Smith, E. & Morowitz, H. J. A mechanism for the association of amino acids with their codons and the origin of the genetic code // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005, vol. 102, pp. 4442–4447. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501049102

Costanzo, G., Pino, S., Ciciriello, F. & Mauro, E. D. Generation of Long RNA Chains in Water // Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2009, vol. 284, pp. 33206–33216. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.041905

Costanzo, G., Saladino, R., Crestini, C., Ciciriello, F. & Mauro, E. D. Formamide as the main building block in the origin of nucleic acids // BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007, vol. 7, S1. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S1

Cozens, C., Pinheiro, V. B., Vaisman, A., Woodgate, R. & Holliger, P. A short adaptive path from DNA to RNA polymerases // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, vol. 109, pp. 8067–8072. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120964109

Crida, A. Solar System formation // arXiv: 0903.3008 [astro-ph], 2009.

Čuboňová, L. et al. Archaeal DNA Polymerase D but Not DNA Polymerase B Is Required for Genome Replication in Thermococcus kodakarensis // Journal of Bacteriology, 2013, vol. 195, pp. 2322–2328. DOI: 10.1128/JB.02037–12

Dadachova, E. et al. Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi // PLoS ONE, 2007, vol. 2. DOI: 10.1371/journal. pone.0000457

Dailey, H. A. Illuminating the black box of B12 biosynthesis // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, vol. 110, pp. 14823–14824 (2013). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313998110

Dailey, H. A., Gerdes, S., Dailey, T. A., Burch, J. S. & Phillips, J. D. Noncanonical coproporphyrin-dependent bacterial heme biosynthesis pathway that does not use protoporphyrin // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, vol. 112, pp. 2210–2215. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416285112

Dawkins. The River out of Eden. Harper Collins, 1996.

Desmond, E. & Gribaldo, S. Phylogenomics of Sterol Synthesis: Insights into the Origin, Evolution, and Diversity of a Key Eukaryotic Feature // Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009, vol. 1, pp. 364–381. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evp036

Di Giulio, M. An extension of the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code // Biology Direct, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 37–37. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-37

Dibrova, D. V., Cherepanov, D. A., Galperin, M. Y., Skulachev, V. P. & Mulkidjanian, A. Y. Evolution of cytochrome bc complexes: From membrane-anchored dehydrogenases of ancient bacteria to triggers of apoptosis in vertebrates // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 1407–1427. DOI: 10.1016/j. bbabio.2013.07.006

Dibrova, D. V., Makarova, K. S., Galperin, M. Y., Koonin, E. V. & Mulkidjanian, A. Y. Comparative analysis of lipid biosynthesis in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes: What was the structure of the first membrane lipids? // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2012, vol. 1817, Supplement, S154. DOI: 10.1016/j. bbabio.2012.06.404

Dismukes, G. C. et al. The origin of atmospheric oxygen on Earth: The innovation of oxygenic photosynthesis // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001, vol. 98, pp. 2170–2175. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.061514798

Douglas, R. H. et al. Dragon fish see using chlorophyll // Nature, 1998, vol. 393, pp. 423–424. DOI: 10.1038/30871

Ducluzeau, A.-L. et al. Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink? // Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2009, vol. 34, pp. 9–15. DOI: 10.1016/j. tibs.2008.10.005

Engelhart, A. E., Powner, M. W. & Szostak, J. W. Functional RNAs exhibit tolerance for non-heritable 2`-5` vs. 3`-5` backbone heterogeneity // Nature chemistry, 2013, vol. 5, pp. 390–394. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1623

Eschenmoser, A. On a Hypothetical Generational Relationship between HCN and Constituents of the Reductive Citric Acid Cycle // Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 554–573. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790050

Ettema, T. J. G., Lindås, A.-C. & Bernander, R. An actin-based cytoskeleton in archaea // Molecular microbiology, 2011, vol. 80, pp. 1052–1061. DOI: 10.1111/j. 1365–2958.2011.07635.x

Fairén, A. G., Fernández-Remolar, D., Dohm, J. M., Baker, V. R. & Amils, R. Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars // Nature, 2004, vol. 431, pp. 423–426. DOI: 10.1038/nature02911

Figueroa, R. I., Bravo, I., Fraga, S., Garcés, E. & Llaveria, G. The Life History and Cell Cycle of Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, A Dinoflagellate with Two Eukaryotic Nuclei // Protist, 2009, vol. 160, pp. 285–300. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.12.003

Fisher, M. A., McKinley, K. L., Bradley, L. H., Viola, S. R. & Hecht, M. H. De Novo Designed Proteins from a Library of Artificial Sequences Function in Escherichia Coli and Enable Cell Growth // PLoS ONE, 2011, vol. 6. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015364

Fitz, D., Jakschitz, T. & Rode, B. M. in Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization (eds. Egel, R., Lankenau, D.-H. & Mulkidjanian, A. Y.), pp. 109–127 (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011).

Forterre, P. & Prangishvili, D. The origin of viruses // Research in Microbiology, 2009, vol. 160, pp. 466–472. DOI: 16/j.resmic.2009.07.008

Forterre, P. A new fusion hypothesis for the origin of Eukarya: better than previous ones, but probably also wrong // Research in microbiology, 2011, vol. 162, pp. 77–91. DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2010.10.005

Forterre, P. The origin of DNA genomes and DNA replication proteins // Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2002, vol. 5, pp. 525–532. DOI: 10.1016/S1369–5274(02)00360–0

Forterre, P. The two ages of the RNA world, and the transition to the DNA world: a story of viruses and cells // Biochimie, 2005, vol. 87, pp. 793–803. DOI: 10.1016/j. biochi.2005.03.015

Forterre, P. Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: A hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 3669–3674. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510333103

Fuerst, J. A. & Sagulenko, E. Keys to eukaryality: planctomycetes and ancestral evolution of cellular complexity // Frontiers in microbiology, 2012, vol. 3, pp. 167. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00167

Giulio, M. D. A Comparison Among the Models Proposed to Explain the Origin of the tRNA Molecule: A Synthesis // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2009, vol. 69, pp. 1–9. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-009-9248-z

Gomes, R., Levison, H. F., Tsiganis, K. & Morbidelli, A. Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets // Nature, 2005, vol. 435, pp. 466–469. DOI: 10.1038/nature03676

Grein, F., Ramos, A. R., Venceslau, S. S. & Pereira, I. A. C. Unifying concepts in anaerobic respiration: Insights from dissimilatory sulfur metabolism // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 145–160. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.09.001

Gribaldo, S., Talla, E. & Brochier-Armanet, C. Evolution of the haem copper oxidases superfamily: a rooting tale // Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2009, vol. 34, pp. 375–381. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2009.04.002

Gupta, R. S. Origin and Spread of Photosynthesis Based upon Conserved Sequence Features in Key Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthesis Proteins // Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2012, vol. 29, pp. 3397–3412. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss145

Guzman, M. I. & Martin, S. T. Prebiotic metabolism: production by mineral photoelectrochemistry of alpha-ketocarboxylic acids in the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle // Astrobiology, 2009, vol. 9, pp. 833–842. DOI: 10.1089/ast.2009.0356

Hagan, W. J. Uracil-Catalyzed Synthesis of Acetyl Phosphate: A Photochemical Driver for Protometabolism // ChemBioChem, 2010, vol. 11, pp. 383–387. DOI: 10.1002/cbic. 200900433

Haines, T. H. Do sterols reduce proton and sodium leaks through lipid bilayers? // Progress in lipid research, 2001, vol. 40, pp. 299–324. DOI: 10.1016/S0163–7827(01)00009–1

Halliday, A. N. The Origin and Earliest History of the Earth // Planets, Asteriods, Comets and The Solar System, 2014, vol. 1, pp. 149–211.

Halliday, A. N. The origins of volatiles in the terrestrial planets // Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013, vol. 105, pp. 146–171. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.11.015

Harish, A. & Caetano-Anollés, G. Ribosomal History Reveals Origins of Modern Protein Synthesis // PLoS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, p. e32776. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032776

Hartman, H. & Smith, T. F. The Evolution of the Ribosome and the Genetic Code // Life, 2014, vol. 4, pp. 227–249. DOI: 10.3390/life4020227

Hazen, R. M., Filley, T. R. & Goodfriend, G. A. Selective adsorption of l- and d-amino acids on calcite: Implications for biochemical homochirality // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001, vol. 98, pp. 5487–5490. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.101085998

Hein, J. E. & Blackmond, D. G. On the Origin of Single Chirality of Amino Acids and Sugars in Biogenesis // Accounts of chemical research, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/ar200316n

Hohmann-Marriott, M. F. & Blankenship, R. E. Evolution of photosynthesis // Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2011, vol. 62, pp. 515–548. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110–103811

Hohn, T., Hohn, B. & Pfeiffer, P. Reverse transcription in CaMV // Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 1985, vol. 10, pp. 205–209. DOI: 10.1016/0968–0004(85)90193–8

Hsiao, C. et al. Molecular paleontology: a biochemical model of the ancestral ribosome // Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 gkt023. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt023

Hsiao, C., Mohan, S., Kalahar, B. K. & Williams, L. D. Peeling the Onion: Ribosomes Are Ancient Molecular Fossils // Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2009, vol. 26, pp. 2415–2425. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp163

Huang, W. & Ferris, J. P. One-step, regioselective synthesis of up to 50-mers of RNA oligomers by montmorillonite catalysis // Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, vol. 128, pp. 8914–8919. DOI: 10.1021/ja061782k

Ii, H. J. C. & Bada, J. L. in Genesis — In The Beginning (ed. Seckbach, J.), pp. 3–33 (Springer Netherlands, 2012).

Inagaki, F. et al. Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 14164–14169. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606083103

Ingar, A.-A., Luke, R. W. A., Hayter, B. R. & Sutherland, J. D. Synthesis of Cytidine Ribonucleotides by Stepwise Assembly of the Heterocycle on a Sugar Phosphate // ChemBioChem, 2003, vol. 4, pp. 504–507. DOI: 10.1002/cbic. 200300554

Iyer, L. M., Koonin, E. V. & Aravind, L. Evolutionary connection between the catalytic subunits of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases and eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and the origin of RNA polymerases // BMC Structural Biology, 2003, vol. 3, p. 1. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-3-1

Jadhav, V. R. & Yarus, M. Acyl-CoAs from Coenzyme Ribozymes // Biochemistry, 2002, vol. 41, pp. 723–729. DOI: 10.1021/bi011803h

Jadhav, V. R. & Yarus, M. Coenzymes as coribozymes // Biochimie, 2002, vol. 84, pp. 877–888. DOI: 10.1016/S0300–9084(02)01404–9

Jheeta, S. & Joshi, P. C. Prebiotic RNA Synthesis by Montmorillonite Catalysis // Life: Open Access Journal, 2014, vol. 4, pp. 318–330. DOI: 10.3390/life4030318

Kaula, W. M. Constraints on Venus Evolution from Radiogenic Argon // Icarus, 1999, vol. 139, pp. 32–39. DOI: 10.1006/icar. 1999.6082

Keeling, P. J. Diversity and evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts // American Journal of Botany, 2004, vol. 91, pp. 1481–1493. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.10.1481

Keller, M. A., Turchyn, A. V. & Ralser, M. Non-enzymatic glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway-like reactions in a plausible Archean ocean // Molecular Systems Biology, 2014, vol. 10. DOI: 10.1002/msb.20145228

Kim, H.-J. et al. Synthesis of Carbohydrates in Mineral-Guided Prebiotic Cycles // Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, vol. 133, pp. 9457–9468. DOI: 10.1021/ja201769f

Koch, A. L. & Silver, S. in Advances in Microbial Physiology (ed. Robert K. Poole), vol. 50, pp. 227–259 (Academic Press, 2005).

Kofoed, J., Reymond, J.-L. & Darbre, T. Prebiotic carbohydrate synthesis: zinc-proline catalyzes direct aqueous aldol reactions of alpha-hydroxy aldehydes and ketones // Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2005, vol. 3, pp. 1850–1855. DOI: 10.1039/b501512j

Koonin, E. V. & Novozhilov, A. S. Origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma // IUBMB Life, 2009, vol. 61, pp. 99–111. DOI: 10.1002/iub.146

Koonin, E. V. On the Origin of Cells and Viruses // Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, vol. 1178, pp. 47–64. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749–6632.2009.04992.x

Koonin, E. V. Temporal order of evolution of DNA replication systems inferred by comparison of cellular and viral DNA polymerases // Biology Direct, 2006, Vol. 1, pp. 39. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-39

Kreysing, M., Keil, L., Lanzmich, S. & Braun, D. Heat flux across an open pore enables the continuous replication and selection of oligonucleotides towards increasing length // Nature Chemistry, 2015, vol. 7, pp. 203–208. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2155

Kritsky, M. S., Kolesnikov, M. P. & Telegina, T. A. Modeling of abiogenic synthesis of ATP // Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2007, vol. 417, pp. 313–315. DOI: 10.1134/S1607672907060063

Lamb, D. C. et al. Lanosterol Biosynthesis in the Prokaryote Methylococcus Capsulatus: Insight into the Evolution of Sterol Biosynthesis // Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2007, vol. 24, pp. 1714–1721. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm090

Laskar, J. & Robutel, P. The chaotic obliquity of the planets // Nature, 1993, vol. 361, pp. 608–612. DOI: 10.1038/361608a0

Leipe, D. D., Aravind, L. & Koonin, E. V. Did DNA replication evolve twice independently? // Nucleic Acids Research, 1999, vol. 27, pp. 3389–3401. DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.17.3389.

Lincoln, T. A. & Joyce, G. F. Self-sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme // Science (New York, N. Y.), 2009, vol. 323, pp. 1229–1232. DOI: 10.1126/science.1167856

Lissauer, J. J. et al. A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11 // Nature, 2011, vol. 470, pp. 53–58 (2011). DOI: 10.1038/nature09760

Liu, R. & Orgel, L. E. Enzymatic synthesis of polymers containing nicotinamide mononucleotide // Nucleic Acids Research, 1995, vol. 23, pp, 3742–3749. DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.18.3742

Lombard, J., López-García, P. & Moreira, D. The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life // Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012, vol. 10, pp. 507–515. DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2815

Macnaughton, T. B., Shi, S. T., Modahl, L. E. & Lai, M. M. C. Rolling Circle Replication of Hepatitis Delta Virus RNA Is Carried Out by Two Different Cellular RNA Polymerases // Journal of Virology, 2002, vol. 76, pp. 3920–3927. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.8.3920–3927.2002

Makarova, K. S., Yutin, N., Bell, S. D. & Koonin, E. V. Evolution of diverse cell division and vesicle formation systems in Archaea // Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2010, vol. 8, pp. 731–741. DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2406

Malyshev, D. A. et al. A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet // Nature, 2014, advance online publication. DOI: 10.1038/nature13314

Margulis, L., Chapman, M., Guerrero, R. & Hall, J. The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 13080–13085. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604985103

Marreiros, B. C., Batista, A. P., Duarte, A. M. S. & Pereira, M. M. A missing link between complex I and group 4 membrane-bound [NiFe] hydrogenases // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 198–209. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.09.012

Martin, H. et al. 4. Building of a Habitable Planet // Earth, Moon, and Planets, 2006, vol. 98, pp. 97–151. DOI: 10.1007/s11038-006-9088-4

Martin, L. L., Unrau, P. J. & Müller, U. F. RNA Synthesis by in Vitro Selected Ribozymes for Recreating an RNA World // Life, 2015, vol. 5, pp. 247–268. DOI: 10.3390/life5010247

Martin, W. & Russell, M. J. On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent // Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2007, vol. 362, pp. 1887–1925. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1881

Marty, B. The origins and concentrations of water, carbon, nitrogen and noble gases on Earth // Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012, vol. 313–314, pp. 56–66. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.040

Mast, C. B., Schink, S., Gerland, U. & Braun, D. Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, vol. 110, pp. 8030–8035. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303222110

Mellersh, A. R. A model for the prebiotic synthesis of peptides which throws light on the origin of the genetic code and the observed chirality of life // Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 1993, vol. 23, pp. 261–274. DOI: 10.1007/BF01581903

Milbury, C., Schubert, G., Raymond, C. A., Smrekar, S. E. & Langlais, B. The history of Mars' dynamo as revealed by modeling magnetic anomalies near Tyrrhenus Mons and Syrtis Major // Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2012, vol. 117, E10007. DOI: 10.1029/2012JE004099

Mittapalli, G. K. et al. Mapping the Landscape of Potentially Primordial Informational Oligomers: Oligodipeptides Tagged with 2,4-Disubstituted 5-Aminopyrimidines as Recognition Elements // Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2007, vol. 46, pp. 2478–2484. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200603209

Mix, L., Haig, D. & Cavanaugh, C. Phylogenetic Analyses of the Core Antenna Domain: Investigatingthe Origin of Photosystem I // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2005, vol. 60, pp. 153–163. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-0181-2

Möller, W. & Janssen, G. M. C. Transfer RNAs for primordial amino acids contain remnants of a primitive code at position 3 to 5 // Biochimie, 1990, vol. 72, pp. 361–368. DOI: 10.1016/0300–9084(90)90033-D

Montmerle, T. et al. 3. Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years // Earth, Moon, and Planets, 2006, vol. 98, pp. 39–95. DOI: 10.1007/s11038-006-9087-5

Moore, S. J. et al. Elucidation of the anaerobic pathway for the corrin component of cobalamin (vitamin B12) // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, vol. 110, pp. 14906–14911. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308098110

Morbidelli, A., Brasser, R., Gomes, R., Levison, H. F. & Tsiganis, K. Evidence from the Asteroid Belt for a Violent Past Evolution of Jupiter's Orbit // The Astronomical Journal, 2010, vol. 140, p. 1391. DOI: 10.1088/0004–6256/140/5/1391

Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F., Tsiganis, K. & Gomes, R. Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System // Nature, 2005, vol. 435, pp. 462–465. DOI: 10.1038/nature03540

Moreira, M. Noble Gas Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Earth's Volatiles // Geochemical Perspectives, 2013, vol. 2, pp. 229–230. URL: http://perspectives.geoscienceworld.org/content/2/2/229

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. & Junge, W. On the origin of photosynthesis as inferred from sequence analysis // Photosynthesis Research, 1997, vol. 51, pp. 27–42. DOI: 10.1023/A:1005726809084

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. & Galperin, M. Y. On the origin of life in the zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth // Biology Direct, 2009, vol. 4, p. 27. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-27

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. & Galperin, M. Y. Physico-chemical and evolutionary constraints for the formation and selection of first biopolymers: towards the consensus paradigm of the abiogenic origin of life // Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 2003–2015. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790167

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. et al. The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 13126–13131. DOI: 10.1073/pnas. 0605709103

Mulkidjanian, A. Y. 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 // Biology Direct, 2009, vol. 4, p. 26. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-26

Mulkidjanian, A. Y., Bychkov, A. Y., Dibrova, D. V., Galperin, M. Y. & Koonin, E. V. Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, vol. 109, pp. E821 — E830. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117774109

Mulkidjanian, A. Y., Cherepanov, D. A. & Galperin, M. Y. Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light // BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, vol. 3, p. 12. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-3-12

Mulkidjanian, A. Y., Galperin, M. Y. & Koonin, E. V. Co-evolution of primordial membranes and membrane proteins // Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2009, vol. 34, pp. 206–215. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2009.01.005

Mulkidjanian, A. Y., Galperin, M. Y., Makarova, K. S., Wolf, Y. I. & Koonin, E. V. Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics // Biology Direct, 2008, vol. 3, p. 13. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-13

Navarro-González, R., McKay, C. P. & Mvondo, D. N. A possible nitrogen crisis for Archaean life due to reduced nitrogen fixation by lightning // Nature, 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, vol. 109, pp. 61–64. DOI: 10.1038/35083537

Nelson, K. E., Levy, M. & Miller, S. L. Peptide nucleic acids rather than RNA may have been the first genetic molecule // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000, vol. 97, pp. 3868–3871. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.8.3868

Nemchin, A. A. et al. A light carbon reservoir recorded in zircon-hosted diamond from the Jack Hills // Nature, 2008, vol. 454, pp. 92–95. DOI: 10.1038/nature07102

Nielsen, P. E. Peptide Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life // Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 1996–2002. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790166

Noller, H. F. Evolution of Protein Synthesis from an RNA World // Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2012, vol. 4, p. a003681. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a003681

Noller, H. F. The driving force for molecular evolution of translation // RNA, 2004, vol. 10, pp. 1833–1837. DOI: 10.1261/rna.7142404

Nunoura, T. et al. Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group // Nucleic Acids Research, 2011, vol. 39, pp. 3204–3223. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1228

Ogasawara, H. et al. Synthesizing Oligomers from Monomeric Nucleotides in Simulated Hydrothermal Environments // Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 2000, vol. 30, pp. 519–526. DOI: 10.1023/A:1026539708173

Olson, J. & Blankenship, R. Thinking About the Evolution of Photosynthesis // Photosynthesis Research, 2004, vol. 80, pp. 373–386. DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000030457.06495.83

Orgel, L. E. The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth // PLoS Biology, 2008, vol. 6. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060018

Otroshchenko, V. A. & Vasilyeva, N. V. Formation of RNA oligonucleotides over the mineral surface preliminary irradiated with UV light // Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, 2009, vol. 97, pp. 151–156. DOI: 10.1007/s11144-009-0006-4

Outten, F. W. Iron-sulfur clusters as oxygen-responsive molecular switches // Nature Chemical Biology, 2007, vol. 3, pp. 206–207. DOI: 10.1038/nchembio0407–206

Padmanabhan, S., York, E. J., Stewart, J. M. & Baldwin, R. L. Helix propensities of basic amino acids increase with the length of the side-chain // Journal of Molecular Biology, 1996, vol. 257, pp. 726–734. DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0197

Pasek, M. A. Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, vol. 105, pp. 853–858. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708205105

Patel, S. C., Bradley, L. H., Jinadasa, S. P. & Hecht, M. H. Cofactor binding and enzymatic activity in an unevolved superfamily of de novo designed 4-helix bundle proteins // Protein Science, 2009, vol. 18, pp. 1388–1400. DOI: 10.1002/pro.147

Pearson, A., Budin, M. & Brocks, J. J. Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence for sterol synthesis in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003, vol. 100, pp. 15352–15357. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2536559100

Pech, H. et al. Detection of Geothermal Phosphite Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography // Environmental Science & Technology, 2009, vol. 43, pp. 7671–7675. DOI: 10.1021/es901469t

Pei, J., Li, W., Kinch, L. N. & Grishin, N. V. Conserved evolutionary units in the heme-copper oxidase superfamily revealed by novel homologous protein families // Protein Science, 2014, vol. 23, pp. 1220–1234. DOI: 10.1002/pro.2503

Pestunova, O., Simonov, A., Snytnikov, V., Stoyanovsky, V. & Parmon, V. Putative mechanism of the sugar formation on prebiotic Earth initiated by UV-radiation // Advances in Space Research, 2005, vol. 36, pp. 214–219. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.02.049

Philippot, P. et al. Early Archaean Microorganisms Preferred Elemental Sulfur, Not Sulfate // Science, 2007, vol. 317, pp. 1534–1537. DOI: 10.1126/science.1145861

Philippot, P., van Zuilen, M. & Rollion-Bard, C. Variations in atmospheric sulphur chemistry on early Earth linked to volcanic activity // Nature Geoscience, 2012, vol. 5, pp. 668–674. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1534

Poole, A., Penny, D. & Sjöberg, B.-M. Methyl-RNA: an evolutionary bridge between RNA and DNA? // Chemistry & Biology, 2000, vol. 7, pp. R207 — R216. DOI: 10.1016/S1074–5521(00)00042–9

Poole, A. M. & Logan, D. T. Modern mRNA Proofreading and Repair: Clues that the Last Universal Common Ancestor Possessed an RNA Genome? // Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2005, vol. 22, pp. 1444–1455. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi132

Powner, M. W., Gerland, B. & Sutherland, J. D. Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions // Nature, 2009, vol. 459, pp. 239–242. DOI: 10.1038/nature08013

Pugachev, K. V. et al. High Fidelity of Yellow Fever Virus RNA Polymerase // Journal of Virology, 2004, vol. 78, pp. 1032–1038. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.2.1032–1038.2004

Quayle, J. R. & Ferenci, T. Evolutionary aspects of autotrophy // Microbiological Reviews, 1978, vol. 42, pp. 251–273.

Rajamani, S. et al. Lipid-assisted Synthesis of RNA-like Polymers from Mononucleotides // Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2007, vol. 38, pp. 57–74. DOI: 10.1007/s11084-007-9113-2

Ricardo, A., Carrigan, M. A., Olcott, A. N. & Benner, S. A. Borate Minerals Stabilize Ribose // Science, 2004, vol. 303, pp. 196–196. DOI: 10.1126/science.1092464

Riguzzi, F., Panza, G., Varga, P. & Doglioni, C. Can Earth's rotation and tidal despinning drive plate tectonics? // Tectonophysics, 2010, vol. 484, pp. 60–73. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.012

Ritson, D. & Sutherland, J. D. Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry // Nature chemistry, 2012, vol. 4, pp. 895–899. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1467

Robertson, M. P., Knudsen, S. M. & Ellington, A. D. In vitro selection of ribozymes dependent on peptides for activity // RNA, 2004, vol. 10, pp. 114–127. DOI: 10.1261/rna.5900204

Rodin, A. S., Szathmáry, E. & Rodin, S. N. On origin of genetic code and tRNA before translation // Biology Direct, 2011, vol. 6, p. 14. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-14

Rodin, A. S., Szathmáry, E. & Rodin, S. N. One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation // Biology Direct, 2009, vol. 4, p. 4. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-4

Rodin, S. N. & Ohno, S. Two types of aminoacyl-trna synthetases could be originally encoded by complementary strands of the same nucleic ACID // Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 1995, vol. 25, pp. 565–589. DOI: 10.1007/BF01582025

Root-Bernstein, M. & Root-Bernstein, R. The ribosome as a missing link in the evolution of life // Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2015, vol. 367, pp. 130–158. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.11.025

Roth, A. & Breaker, R. R. An amino acid as a cofactor for a catalytic polynucleotide // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998, vol. 95, pp. 6027–6031.

Rothschild, L. J. The evolution of photosynthesis… again? // Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 2008, vol. 363, pp. 2787–2801. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0056

Russell, M. J. et al. The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds // Astrobiology, 2014, vol. 14, pp. 308–343. DOI: 10.1089/ast.2013.1110

Ryu, Y., Kim, K.-J., Roessner, C. A. & Scott, A. I. Decarboxylative Claisen condensation catalyzed by in vitro selected ribozymes // Chemical Communications, 2006, vol. 13, pp. 1439–1441. DOI: 10.1039/b517160a

Saladino, R., Crestini, C., Ciciriello, F., Costanzo, G. & Di Mauro, E. Formamide Chemistry and the Origin of Informational Polymers // Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 694–720. DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790059

Sato, T., Atomi, H. & Imanaka, T. Archaeal Type III RuBisCOs Function in a Pathway for AMP Metabolism // Science, 2007, vol. 315, pp. 1003–1006. DOI: 10.1126/science.1135999

Schoepp-Cothenet, B. et al. On the universal core of bioenergetics // Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Bioenergetics, 2013, vol. 1827, pp. 79–93. DOI: 10.1016/j. bbabio.2012.09.005

Schöning, K.-U. et al. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: The α-Threofuranosyl- (3'→2') Oligonucleotide System // Science, 2000, vol. 290, pp. 1347–1351. DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5495.1347

Sczepanski, J. T. & Joyce, G. F. A cross-chiral RNA polymerase ribozyme // Nature, 2014, vol. 515, pp. 440–442. DOI: 10.1038/nature13900

Sen, D. & Poon, L. C. H. RNA and DNA complexes with hemin [Fe (III) heme] are efficient peroxidases and peroxygenases: how do they do it and what does it mean? // Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2011, vol. 46, pp. 478–492. DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2011.618220

Senanayake, S. D. & Idriss, H. Photocatalysis and the origin of life: synthesis of nucleoside bases from formamide on TiO2 (001) single surfaces // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006, vol. 103, pp. 1194–1198. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505768103

Shimada, H. & Yamagishi, A. Stability of Heterochiral Hybrid Membrane Made of Bacterial sn-G3P Lipids and Archaeal sn-G1P Lipids // Biochemistry, 2011, vol. 50, pp. 4114–4120. DOI: 10.1021/bi200172d

Shimizu, M., Yamagishi, A., Kinoshita, K., Shida, Y. & Oshima, T. Prebiotic Origin of Glycolytic Metabolism: Histidine and Cysteine can Produce Acetyl CoA from Glucose via Reactions Homologous to Non-phosphorylated Entner-Doudoroff Pathway // Journal of Biochemistry, 2008, vol. 144, pp. 383–388. DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvn073

Silverman, S. K. Deoxyribozymes: DNA catalysts for bioorganic chemistry // Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 2701–2706. DOI: 10.1039/B411910J

Sivan, O., Antler, G., Turchyn, A. V., Marlow, J. J. & Orphan, V. J. Iron oxides stimulate sulfate-driven anaerobic methane oxidation in seeps // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014, vol. 111, pp. E4139 — E4147. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412269111

Smith, E. & Morowitz, H. J. Universality in intermediary metabolism // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004, vol. 101, pp. 13168–13173. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404922101

Solov'yov, I. A. & Schulten, K. Magnetoreception through Cryptochrome May Involve Superoxide // Biophysical Journal, 2009, vol. 96, pp. 4804–4813. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.048

Sousa, F. L. et al. Early bioenergetic evolution // Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013, vol. 368, Article ARTN 20130088. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0088

Spang, A. et al. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes // Nature advance online publication (2015). DOI: 10.1038/nature14447

Szabó-Nagy, A. & Keszthelyi, L. Demonstration of the parity-violating energy difference between enantiomers // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999, vol. 96, pp. 4252–4255. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.8.4252

Szathmáry, E. Coding coenzyme handles: a hypothesis for the origin of the genetic code // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993, vol. 90, pp. 9916–9920. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.21.9916

Szostak, J. W. The eightfold path to non-enzymatic RNA replication // Journal of Systems Chemistry, 2012, vol. 3, p. 2. DOI: 10.1186/1759-2208-3-2

Takemura, M. Poxviruses and the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus // Journal of molecular evolution, 2001, vol. 52, pp. 419–425. DOI: 10.1007/s002390010171

Takemura, M., Yokobori, S. & Ogata, H. Evolution of Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases via Interaction Between Cells and Large DNA Viruses // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2015, vol. 81, pp. 24–33. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-015-9690-z

Tang, K.-H. et al. Complete genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus // BMC Genomics, 2011, vol. 12, p. 334. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-334

Tang, K.-H., Yue, H. & Blankenship, R. E. Energy metabolism of Heliobacterium modesticaldum during phototrophic and chemotrophic growth // BMC Microbiology, 2010, vol. 10, p. 150. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-150

Telegina, T. A., Kolesnikov, M. P., Vechtomova, Y. L., Buglak, A. A. & Kritsky, M. S. Abiotic photophosphorylation model based on abiogenic flavin and pteridine pigments // Journal of molecular evolution, 2013, vol. 76, pp. 332–342. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-013-9562-3

The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems. Available at: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11919&page=69. (Accessed: 3rd September 2015).

Tielens, A. G. M., Rotte, C., van Hellemond, J. J. & Martin, W. Mitochondria as we don't know them // Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2002, vol. 27, pp. 564–572. DOI: 16/S0968–0004(02)02193-X

Tsiganis, K., Gomes, R., Morbidelli, A. & Levison, H. F. Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System // Nature, 2005, vol. 435, pp. 459–461. DOI: 10.1038/nature03539

Tsukiji, S., Pattnaik, S. B. & Suga, H. Reduction of an Aldehyde by a NADH/Zn2+-Dependent Redox Active Ribozyme // Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, vol. 126, pp. 5044–5045. DOI: 10.1021/ja0495213

Turick, C. E., Ekechukwu, A. A., Milliken, C. E., Casadevall, A. & Dadachova, E. Gamma radiation interacts with melanin to alter its oxidation — reduction potential and results in electric current production // Bioelectrochemistry, 2011, vol. 82, pp. 69–73. DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2011.04.009

Vakulenko, S. & Grigoriev, D. Evolution in random environment and structural instability // Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2006, vol. 138, pp. 5644–5662. DOI: 10.1007/s10958-006-0333-1

Van Flandern, T. C. & Harrington, R. S. A dynamical investigation of the conjecture that Mercury is an escaped satellite of Venus // Icarus, 1976, vol. 28, pp. 435–440. DOI: 10.1016/0019–1035(76)90116–0

Viedma, C., Ortiz, J. E., Torres, T. de, Izumi, T. & Blackmond, D. G. Evolution of Solid Phase Homochirality for a Proteinogenic Amino Acid // Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, vol. 30, pp. 15274–15275. DOI: 10.1021/ja8074506

Vlassov, A. V., Johnston, B. H., Landweber, L. F. & Kazakov, S. Ligation activity of fragmented ribozymes in frozen solution: implications for the RNA world // Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 2966–2974. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh601

Wacey, D., McLoughlin, N., Whitehouse, M. J. & Kilburn, M. R. Two coexisting sulfur metabolisms in a ca. 3400 Ma sandstone // Geology, 2010, vol. 38, pp. 1115–1118. DOI: 10.1130/G31329.1

Wächtershäuser, G. From volcanic origins of chemoautotrophic life to Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya // Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2006, vol. 361, pp. 1787–1806; discussion 1806–1808. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1904

Weber, A. L. & Miller, S. L. Reasons for the occurrence of the twenty coded protein amino acids // Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1981, vol. 17, pp. 273–284. DOI: 10.1007/BF01795749

Williams, G. E. Geological constraints on the Precambrian history of Earth's rotation and the Moon's orbit // Reviews of Geophysics, 2000, vol. 38, pp. 37–59. DOI: 10.1029/1999RG900016

Wochner, A., Attwater, J., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ribozyme-Catalyzed Transcription of an Active Ribozyme // Science, 2011, vol. 32, pp. 209–212. DOI: 10.1126/science.1200752

Wray, J. J. et al. Prolonged magmatic activity on Mars inferred from the detection of felsic rocks // Nature Geoscience, 2013, vol. 6, pp. 1013–1017. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1994

Yu, H., Zhang, S. & Chaput, J. C. Darwinian evolution of an alternative genetic system provides support for TNA as an RNA progenitor // Nature Chemistry, 2012, vol. 4, pp. 183–187. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1241

Yutin, N. & Koonin, E. V. Archaeal origin of tubulin // Biology direct, 2012, vol. 7, p. 10. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-10

Yutin, N., Wolf, M. Y., Wolf, Y. I. & Koonin, E. V. The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis // Biology direct, 2009, vol. 4, p. 9. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-9

Zahnle, K. et al. Emergence of a Habitable Planet // Space Science Reviews, 2007, vol. 129, pp. 35–78. DOI: 10.1007/s11214-007-9225-z

Zahnle, K., Schaefer, L. & Fegley, B. Earth's Earliest Atmospheres // Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2010, vol. 2. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a004895

Zarzycki, J., Brecht, V., Müller, M. & Fuchs, G. Identifying the missing steps of the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate CO2 fixation cycle in Chloroflexus aurantiacus // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009, vol. 106, pp. 21317–21322. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908356106

Zhang, L., Peritz, A. & Meggers, E. A Simple Glycol Nucleic Acid // Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005, vol. 127, pp. 4174–4175. DOI: 10.1021/ja042564z