Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean ocean

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 10089-10094

  Pasek, Matthew A ^a   Harnmeijerbc, Jelte P ^b,c   Buickb, Roger ^b   Gulla, Maheen ^a   Atlasa, Zachary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Exobiology; Origin of life; Phosphorylation; Prebiotic chemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; PHOSPHITE; PHOSPHORUS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEA; STOICHIOMETRY;

ASTROBIOLOGY; EXOBIOLOGY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY;

BIOGENESIS; CARBONATES; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; FERUMOXYTOL; GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA;

EID: 84879304088     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303904110     Document Type: Article

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