List of Guest Edited Papers

MDPI Journal: Life (2021)

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Kevin G Devine and Sohan Jheeta. De Novo Nucleic Acids: A Review of Synthetic Alternatives to DNA and RNA That Could Act as Bio-Information Storage Molecules

Sohan Jheeta,Elias Chatzitheodoridis,Kevin Devine andJanice Block. The Way forward for the Origin of Life: Prions and Prion-Like Molecules First Hypothesis

2020 the year of Covid-19

MDPI Journal: Sci (2019)

22 Bandyopadhyay, P.S. N, Grunska, N., D. Dcruz and M. C, Greenwood. (2019). Are Scientific Models of Life Testable? A Lesson from Simpson’s Paradox

21 Burchell, M., Kathryn Harriss. (2019). Organic Molecules: Is It Possible to Distinguish Aromatics from Aliphatics Collected by Space Missions in High Speed Impacts? Sci, 1(2), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020053.

Hansma, H.G. (2019). Mechanical Energy before Chemical Energy at the Origins of Life? Sci, 1(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020050 (registering DOI)

Raj, S., S., Jheeta., A.K., Daniel. J., Pious and H., Oliver. (2019). Influence of Gravitational Shielding on Time Dilation. Sci, 1(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020045

Jheeta, Sohan. (2019). Molecules to Microbes. Sci, 1(2), 42: https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020042

Kompanichenko, Vladimir, (2019). Thermodynamic Jump from Prebiotic Microsystems to Primary Living Cells. Sci, 1(2), 35: https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020035

Kovačević, Andjelka B. (2019). On Mautner-Type Probability of Capture of Intergalactic Meteor Particles by Habitable Exoplanets. Sci, 1(2), 40: https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020040

15 Torres de Farias, S., T.G., Rêgo and M.V. José. (2019). Origin of the 16S Ribosomal Molecule from

Ancestor tRNAs. Sci, 1, 8, doi: 10.3390/sci1010008.v1

MDPI Journal: Life (2017)

Jheeta, S. (2017). Conference report: The Landscape of the Emergence of Life. Life, 7, 27,

doi:10.3390/life7020027

Hansma, H.G. (2017), Better than Membranes at the Origin of Life? Life, 7, 28,

doi:10.3390/life7020028

Torres de Farias, T.G., Rêgo, and M.V. José. (2017). Peptidyl Transferase Center and the Emergence

of the Translation System. Life, 7, 21; doi:10.3390/life7020021

Maccone, C. (22017). Evo-SETI: A Mathematical Tool for Cladistics, Evolution, and SETI. Life, 7, 18,

doi:10.3390/life7020018

Iqubal, Md.A., R., Sharma, R., S., Jheeta and Kamaluddin. (2017). Thermal Condensation of Glycine

and Alanine on Metal Ferrite Surface: Primitive Peptide Bond Formation Scenario. Life, 7, 15;

doi:10.3390/life7020015

Sharma, R., Md.A., Iqubal and Kamaluddin. (2016). “Possible role of Prussian blue nanoparticles in

chemical evolution: interaction with ribose nucleotides. 15, Special Issue 1, pp. 17-25.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550415000348

Jheeta, S. (2016). Editorial: The Landscape of the Emergence of Life. Life, 6, 20,

doi:10.3390/life6020020

International Journal of Astrobiology (2016)

Gill, S. and Forterre, P. (2015). Origin of life: LUCA and extracellular membrane vesicles (EMVs).

International Journal of Astrobiology,15 (1): 7–15 doi:10.1017/S1473550415000282

Torres de Farias, S., T.G. Rêgo., and M.V. José. (2016). “A proposal of the proteome before the last

universal common ancestor (LUCA). International Journal of Astrobiology, 15(01),

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550415000464

Kotakis, C. (2015). Re-criticizing RNA-mediated cell evolution International Journal of Astrobiology, 15,

Special Issue 1, 3-5

Jheeta, S. (2015) Conference Report: The Routes of Emergence of Life from LUCA during the RNA and

Viral World: A Conspectus. Life, 5, 1445-1453, doi:10.3390/life5021445

Jheeta, S., and P.C. Joshi. 2014. Prebiotic RNA Synthesis by Montmorillonite Catalysis. Life, 4, 318-

330; doi:10.3390/life4030318

MDPI Journal: Life (2014)

Arber, W. (2014). Horizontal Gene Transfer among Bacteria and Its Role in Biological Evolution. Life,

4(2), 217-224, doi:10.3390/life4020217

Jheeta, S. (2013). Editorial: Horizontal Gene Transfer and Its Part in the Reorganisation of Genetics

during the LUCA Epoch. Life, 3, 518-523; doi:10.3390/life3040518