Life on Earth can grow on extraterrestrial organic carbon.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
14 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024
Historique:
received:
15
11
2023
accepted:
09
02
2024
medline:
15
2
2024
pubmed:
15
2
2024
entrez:
15
2
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The universe is a vast store of organic abiotic carbon that could potentially drive heterotrophy on habitable planets. Meteorites are one of the transporters of this carbon to planetary surfaces. Meteoritic material was accumulating on early Earth when life emerged and proliferated. Yet it is not known if this organic carbon from space was accessible to life. In this research, an anaerobic microbial community was grown with the CM2 carbonaceous chondrite Aguas Zarcas as the sole carbon, energy and nutrient source. Using a reversed
Identifiants
pubmed: 38355968
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-54195-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-54195-6
doi:
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Journal Article
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eng
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Organisme : NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
ID : NE/L002558/1
Organisme : NERC Environmental Omics Facility
ID : NE/V003860/1
Organisme : EPSRC-SFI
ID : EP/V042882/1
Organisme : Science and Technology Facilities Council
ID : ST/V000586/1
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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