Abundant extraterrestrial purine nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite: Implications for a unified mechanism for purine synthesis in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies
Toshiki Koga, Yoshinori Takano, Yasuhiro Oba, Hiroshi Naraoka, Naohiko Ohkouchi
Topics & Concepts
Murchison meteoriteNucleobaseUracilChemistryThymineGuanineMeteoriteCytosineChondriteAstrobiologyDNANucleotideBiochemistryBiologyGeneOrigins and Evolution of LifeChemical Analysis and Environmental ImpactAstro and Planetary Science