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The Ribofilm as a Concept for Life’s Origins

Author(s) -

John A. Baross,

William Martin

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.038

Subject(s) - biology , archaea , abiogenesis , hydrothermal vent , phylogenetic tree , evolutionary biology , rna world hypothesis , biological evolution , ecology , rna , genetics , hydrothermal circulation , gene , paleontology , ribozyme

Recent phylogenetic data indicating that the first archaea were methane-producing galvanizes cross-disciplinary evidence supporting the hypothesis that life arose via thermodynamically directed events at hydrothermal vents. The new developments lead us to propose the concept of a ribofilm in which RNA's origin-of-life role is more akin to a slowly changing platform than a spontaneous self-replicator.

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