Books
 

Recent astrobiology papers by Australia/New Zealand scientists 

Astrobiology (General)

Des Marais, D.J. and Walter, M.R., 1999, "Astrobiology: Exploring the Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Universe", Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 30, 397. - abstract 

Origin of Life

Bailey, J.  2000,  Astronomical Sources of Circularly Polarized Light and the Origin of Homochirality, Orig. Life. Evol Biosphere in press.  preprint

Penny, D. & Poole, A., 1999, "The nature of the last universal common ancestor" Current Opinions in Genetics & Development, 9, 672.

Poole, A., Jeffares, D. & Penny, D., 1999, "Early evolution: prokaryotes, the new kids on the block" BioEssays, 21, 880.

Poole, A.M., Jeffares, D.C. & Penny, D., 1998, "The path from the RNA world" J Mol Evol, 46, 1. - abstract

Jeffares, D.C., Poole, A.M. & Penny, D., 1998, "Relics from the RNA world" J Mol Evol, 46, 18. - abstract

see also: Pennisi, E., 1998, "Genome data shake tree of life"  Science, 280, 672.

Bailey, J., Chrysostomou, A., Hough, J.H., Gledhill, T.M., McCall, A., Clark, S., Menard, F. and Tamura, M.,  1998, Circular Polarization in Star Forming Regions: Implications for Biomolecular Homochirality, Science, 281, 672-674,  - preprint  -  figure 1 (colour eps)
 

Early Life on Earth

Rasmussen, B., 2000, Filamentous microfossils in a 3,235-million-year-old volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Nature, 405, 676

Hofmann, H.J., Grey, K., Hickman, A.H. and Thorpe, R.I., 1999, Origin of 3.45 Ga coniform stromatolites in Warrawoona Group, Western Australia, Bulletin Geol. Soc. America, 111, 1256-1262.  - abstract

Summons, R.E., Jahnke, L.L., Hope, J.M. & Logan, G.A., 1999, "2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis"  Nature, 400, 554-557.

Brocks, J.J., Logan, G.A., Buick, R. & Summons, R.E., 1999, "Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes" Science, 285, 1033.
 

see also: Knoll, A.H., 1999, "A new molecular window on early life" Science, 285, 1025.

Extrasolar Planets

Lineweaver, C., 2001, "An Estimate of the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe: Quantifying Metallicity as a Selection Effect" Icarus, in press. astro-ph/0012399

Tinney, C.G., Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J., Vogt, S.S., Apps, K. & Henry, G.W., 2001, "First Results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search - A Brown Dwarf Candidate and a 51 Peg-like Planet" Astrophys. J. in press. astro-ph/0012204.

Albrow, M.D., Beaulieu, J.-P., Caldwell, J.A.R., DePoy, D.L., Dominik, M., Gaudi, B.S., Gould, A., Greenhill, J., Hill, K., Kane, S., Martin, R., Naber, R.M., Pogge, R.W., Pollard, K.R., Sackett, P.D., Sahu, K.C., Vermaak, P., Watson, R. & Williams, A. 2000, "Limits on stellar and planetary companions in microlensing event OGLE-1998-BUL-14" Astrophys. J., 535, 176.

Gaudi, B.S., Albrow, M.D., An, J.H., Beaulieu, J.-P., Caldwell, J.A.R., Depoy, D.L., Dominik, M., Gould, A., Greenhill, J., Hill, K., Kane, S., Martin, R., Menzies, J., Pogge, R.W., Pollard, K., Sackett, P.D., Sahu, K.C., Vermaak, P., Watson, R., Williams, A. 2000, "Microlensing constraints on the frequency of Jupiter mass planets" in Menzies J.W. and Sackett P.D. eds. "A new era of microlensing astrophysics" ASP Conf Series, in press.  astro-ph/0004269.

SETI 

Stootman, F.H., De Horta, A.Y., Oliver, C.A. & Wellington, K.J., 2000, "The Southern Serendip Project", in A New Era in Bioastronomy, ed. G. Lemarchand, K. Meech, ASP Conf Series, 213, 491.

Norris, R.P., 2000, "How Old is ET?", in "When SETI Succeeds: The impact of high-information Contact", ed. A. Tough, Foundation for the Future, Washington DC, web version

Other

Uwins, P.J.R., Webb, R.I. and Taylor, A.P., 1998, Novel nano-organisms from Australian sandstones,  American Mineralogist, 83, 1541-1550. - paper in PDF format.