Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

By William F. Martin, J. Baross, D. Kelley, Michael Russell. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Algae-bacteria interactions: Evolution, ecology and emerging applications. (2016, background): “But whether life originated in oceans (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001), hydrothermal vents (Martin et al., 2008), rock environment or anoxic terrestrial geothermal fi elds (Mulkidjanianet al., 2012) is a question under serious debate.”
• Beyond carbon and nitrogen: how the microbial energy economy couples elemental cycles in diverse ecosystems (2011, background): “2008) and has also provided clues to the metabolic processes of Earth’s earliest life forms that preceded the development of an oxidized atmosphere (Martin et al. 2008).”
• Mechanisms of soil acidification reducing bacterial diversity (2015, background): “It is generally agreed that all terrestrial ecosystems and their biological components are originated from the ocean (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001; Martin et al., 2008).”
• Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life (2012, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. EA40CH21-Arndt ARI 23 March 2012 15:30 and Martin et al. (2008) focused on alkaline hydrothermal vents, influenced especially by the off-axis “Lost City” system.”
• Origins of building blocks of life: A review (2017, background): “, 1979) led to a new idea that life might have originated in hydrothermal systems on the primitive Earth (Takai et al., 2006; Martin et al., 2008; Sousa et al., 2013).”
• The faint young Sun problem (2012, background): “In summary, there are multiple lines of independent evidence suggesting the existence of liquid water on Earth’s surface during the Archean, when the Sun was considerably fainter than today.”
• Beyond the Calvin cycle: autotrophic carbon fixation in the ocean. (2011, background): “Thus, the WL-pathway is so far the only carbon fixation pathway present in both bacteria and archaea, in line with the hypothesis that it is the most ancient autotrophic carbon fixation pathway (Fuchs 1989, Martin et al. 2008, Berg et al. 2010a).”
• Mechanisms for the generation of plate tectonics by two-phase grain-damage and pinning (2012, background): “Plate tectonics may also be necessary for the existence of life by providing a source of thermodynamic disequilibrium through continuous recycling of the surface (e.g., Southam and Westall, 2007; Martin et al., 2008).”
• The Surface UV Environment on Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs: Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry and the Need for Experimental Follow-up (2017, background): “…that our focus on UV light is unwarranted because it is not certain that UV light played a role in the origin of life on Earth, let alone on other planets; indeed, UV light would be altogether absent in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent hypothesis for the origin of life (e.g., Martin et al. 2008).”
• Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining on Microbial Ecosystem Services (2018, background): “Active vent systems also have incalculable value as representations of habitats that were likely to be prevalent on the ancient Earth and perhaps even acted as the cradle for the evolution of microbial life (Baross and Hoffman, 1985; Martin et al., 2008).”
• Ecological Aspects of the Distribution of Different Autotrophic CO2 Fixation Pathways (2011, background): “According to the “metabolism first” theory, life started in a hydrothermal vent setting in the Hadean ocean with catalytic metal sulfide surfaces or compartments (71, 116), and the reductive acetyl-CoA pathway may have evolved as the first metabolic cycle (14, 34, 84, 123).”
• Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology (2010, background): “Thus, the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on Earth has been suggested to be hyperthermophilic [65].”