The origin of life and the left-handed amino-acid excess: The furthest heavens and the deepest seas?

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 231, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1587-1592

  Goodman, Geoffrey ^a   Gershwin, M Eric ^b  

^a School of Medicine ^*  (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric planetary rotation; Evolution; Homochirality; Origin of life; Polarized light

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; THALIDOMIDE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOGENESIS; CHIRALITY; EVOLUTION; ISOMER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SHORT SURVEY; STEREOISOMERISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33751338462     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020623101002     Document Type: Short Survey

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