Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?
@article{Gogarten2016IsLA, title={Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?}, author={J. Gogarten and D. Deamer}, journal={Nature Microbiology}, year={2016}, volume={1} }
To the Editor — We wish to comment on several claims made in the paper by Weiss et al.1, which describes a genomic analysis that they believe is consistent with the origin of life and emergence of a progenote-like last universal common ancestor (LUCA) in hydrothermal vent conditions. The hydrothermal vent concept was proposed by researchers in the 1980s as an ocean would have been the dominant aqueous medium on the early Earth. Most would also agree that life could not begin in the open ocean… Expand
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