Rouillard, J.; van Zuilen, M.; Pisapia, C.; Garcia-Ruiz, J. M., An Alternative Approach for Assessing Biogenicity. Astrobiology 2020. Download here: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2282https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2282 The search for signs of life in the ancient rock record, extreme terrestrial environments, and other planetary bodies requires a well-established, universal, and unambiguous test of biogenicity. This is notably true for cellular remnants of microbial life, since their relatively simple morphologies resemble various abiogenic microstructures that occur in nature. Although lists of qualitative…
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