The Astrobiology Primer v2.0
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Domagal-Goldman Shawn D., Wright Katherine E., Adamala Katarzyna, Arina de la Rubia Leigh, Bond Jade, Dartnell Lewis R., Goldman Aaron D., Lynch Kennda, Naud Marie-Eve, Paulino-Lima Ivan G., Singer Kelsi, Walter-Antonio Marina, Abrevaya Ximena C., Anderson Rika, Arney Giada, Atri Dimitra, Azúa-Bustos Armando, Bowman Jeff S., Brazelton William J., Brennecka Gregory A., Carns Regina, Chopra Aditya, Colangelo-Lillis Jesse, Crockett Christopher J., DeMarines Julia, Frank Elizabeth A., Frantz Carie, de la Fuente Eduardo, Galante Douglas, Glass Jennifer, Gleeson Damhnait, Glein Christopher R., Goldblatt Colin, Horak Rachel, Horodyskyj Lev, Kaçar Betül, Kereszturi Akos, Knowles Emily, Mayeur Paul, McGlynn Shawn, Miguel Yamila, Montgomery Michelle, Neish Catherine, Noack Lena, Rugheimer Sarah, Stüeken Eva E., Tamez-Hidalgo Paulina, Walker Sara Imari, and Wong Teresa.
Astrobiology. August 2016, 16(8): 561-653. doi: 10.1089/ast.2015.1460.
Published in Volume: 16 Issue 8: August 1, 2016
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Co-Lead Editors Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman and Katherine E. Wright Chapter Editors Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman (Co-Lead Editor, Co-Editor Chapter 1, and Author)1,2,* Katherine E. Wright (Co-Lead Editor, Co-Editor Chapter 1, and Author)3,4,* Katarzyna Adamala (Co-Editor Chapter 3 and Author)5 Leigh Arina de la Rubia (Editor Chapter 9 and Author)6 Jade Bond (Co-Editor Chapter 3 and Author)7 Lewis R. Dartnell (Co-Editor Chapter 7 and Author)8 Aaron D. Goldman (Editor Chapter 2 and Author)9 Kennda Lynch (Co-Editor Chapter 5 and Author)10 Marie-Eve Naud (Co-Editor Chapter 7 and Author)11 Ivan G. Paulino-Lima (Editor Chapter 8 and Author)12,13 Kelsi Singer (Co-Editor Chapter 5, Editor Chapter 6, and Author)14 Marina Walter-Antonio (Editor Chapter 4 and Author)15 Authors Ximena C. Abrevaya,16 Rika Anderson,17 Giada Arney,18 Dimitra Atri,13 Armando Azúa-Bustos,13,19 Jeff S. Bowman,20 William J. Brazelton,21 Gregory A. Brennecka,22 Regina Carns,23 Aditya Chopra,24 Jesse Colangelo-Lillis,25 Christopher J. Crockett,26 Julia DeMarines,13 Elizabeth A. Frank,27 Carie Frantz,28 Eduardo de la Fuente,29 Douglas Galante,30 Jennifer Glass,31 Damhnait Gleeson,32 Christopher R. Glein,33 Colin Goldblatt,34 Rachel Horak,35 Lev Horodyskyj,36 Betül Kaçar,37 Akos Kereszturi,38 Emily Knowles,39 Paul Mayeur,40 Shawn McGlynn,41 Yamila Miguel,42 Michelle Montgomery,43 Catherine Neish,44 Lena Noack,45 Sarah Rugheimer,46,47 Eva E. Stüeken,48,49 Paulina Tamez-Hidalgo,50 Sara Imari Walker,13,51 and Teresa Wong52
1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
2 Virtual Planetary Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA.
3 University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA.
4 Present address: UK Space Agency, UK.
5 Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
6 Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
7 Department of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
8 University of Westminster, London, UK.
9 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA.
10 Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA.
11 Institute for research on exoplanets (iREx), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
12 Universities Space Research Association, Mountain View, California, USA.
13 Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, Washington, USA.
14 Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
15 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
16 Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE), UBA—CONICET, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
17 Department of Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA.
18 University of Washington Astronomy Department and Astrobiology Program, Seattle, Washington, USA.
19 Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
20 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA.
21 Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
22 Institut für Planetologie, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
23 Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
24 Planetary Science Institute, Research School of Earth Sciences, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
25 Earth and Planetary Science, McGill University, and the McGill Space Institute, Montréal, Canada.
26 Society for Science & the Public, Washington, DC, USA.
27 Carnegie Institute for Science, Washington, DC, USA.
28 Department of Geosciences, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA.
29 IAM-Departamento de Fisica, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, México.
30 Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Campinas, Brazil.
31 School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
32 Science Foundation Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
33 Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
34 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
35 American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, USA.
36 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
37 Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
38 Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
39 Johnson & Wales University, Denver, Colorado, USA.
40 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
41 Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
42 Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
43 University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.
44 Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
45 Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
46 Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
47 University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK.
48 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
49 University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
50 Novozymes A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
51 School of Earth and Space Exploration and Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
52 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
*These two authors contributed equally to the work.
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Submitted 23 December 2015 Accepted 6 June 2016
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction—What Is Astrobiology?
Chapter 2. What Is Life?
Chapter 3. How Did Earth and Its Biosphere Originate?
Chapter 4. How Have Earth and Its Biosphere Evolved?
Chapter 5. What Does Life on Earth Tell Us about Habitability?
Chapter 6. What Is Known about Potentially Habitable Worlds beyond Earth?
Chapter 7. What Are the Signs of Life (Biosignatures) That We Could Use to Look for Life beyond Earth?
Chapter 8. What Relevance Does Astrobiology Have to the Future of Life on This Planet?
Chapter 9. Resources
Acknowledgments
References
Abbreviations List
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