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Antonio Lazcano's Degrees

Bachelors Biology National Autonomous University of Mexico
Masters Microbiology National Autonomous University of Mexico
PhD Biochemistry National Autonomous University of Mexico

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According to Wikipedia, Antonio Eusebio Lazcano Araujo Reyes is a Mexican biology researcher and professor of the School of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. He has studied the origin and early evolution of life for more than 35 years.

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The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment (2008) (290)
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry, the Pre-RNA World, and Time (1996) (282)
Astrophysical and astrochemical insights into the origin of life (2002) (246)
The genomic tree as revealed from whole proteome comparisons. (1999) (242)
Histidine biosynthetic pathway and genes: structure, regulation, and evolution. (1996) (238)
A Reassessment of Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres (2008) (218)
Primordial synthesis of amines and amino acids in a 1958 Miller H2S-rich spark discharge experiment (2011) (203)
Some Like It Hot, But Not the First Biomolecules (2002) (191)
On the Origin of Metabolic Pathways (1999) (163)
The origin of life—did it occur at high temperatures? (2004) (143)
Molecular Evolution of the Lysine Biosynthetic Pathways (2002) (131)
The origin and early evolution of life on Earth. (1990) (124)
The roads to and from the RNA world. (2003) (122)
How long did it take for life to begin and evolve to cyanobacteria? (1994) (102)
Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment (2003) (100)
Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life (2006) (98)
The evolutionary transition from RNA to DNA in early cells (2005) (81)
Sofosbuvir as a potential alternative to treat the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (2020) (80)
The Very Early Stages of Biological Evolution and the Nature of the Last Common Ancestor of the Three Major Cell Domains (2007) (79)
Structural Analysis of Monomeric RNA-Dependent Polymerases: Evolutionary and Therapeutic Implications (2015) (79)
The Last Common Ancestor: What's in a name? (2005) (72)
The 1953 Stanley L. Miller Experiment: Fifty Years of Prebiotic Organic Chemistry (2004) (70)
The definition of life: a brief history of an elusive scientific endeavor. (2010) (70)
An Investigation of Prebiotic Purine Synthesis from the Hydrolysis of HCN Polymers (2005) (68)
Molecular Evolution of Peptide Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases (MsrA and MsrB): On the Early Development of a Mechanism That Protects Against Oxidative Damage (2005) (67)
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Life (2009) (65)
Comparative biochemistry of CO2 fixation and the evolution of autotrophy. (1999) (60)
Oparin's ``Origin of Life'': Sixty Years Later (1997) (59)
Prebiotic Synthesis of Methionine and Other Sulfur-Containing Organic Compounds on the Primitive Earth: A Contemporary Reassessment Based on an Unpublished 1958 Stanley Miller Experiment (2010) (54)
Historical development of origins research. (2010) (53)
The Notion of a DNA Minimal Cell: A General Discourse and Some Guidelines for an Experimental Approach (2002) (51)
Comparative Genomics and the Gene Complement of a Minimal Cell (2004) (50)
The origin of a novel gene through overprinting in Escherichia coli (2008) (47)
Molecular evolution of the histidine biosynthetic pathway (1995) (43)
Astrobiology: Future Perspectives (2005) (42)
Prebiological evolution and the physics of the origin of life. (2005) (39)
Viral Genome Size Distribution Does not Correlate with the Antiquity of the Host Lineages (2015) (38)
Prebiotic syntheses of purines and pyrimidines. (1984) (38)
Comets and the formation of biochemical compounds on the primitive Earth – A review (1991) (37)
Histidine biosynthetic pathway and genes: structure, regulation, and evolution (1996) (36)
The Role of Gene Duplication in the Evolution of Purine Nucleotide Salvage Pathways (1998) (35)
Polyamino acids as synthetic enzymes: mechanism, applications and relevance to prebiotic catalysis. (2005) (34)
Hyperthermophily and the origin and earliest evolution of life (2003) (31)
On the lack of evolutionary continuity between prebiotic peptides and extant enzymes. (2016) (30)
On the early evolution of RNA polymerase (2005) (30)
Evolution of the Structure and Chromosomal Distribution of Histidine Biosynthetic Genes (1998) (28)
On the levels of enzymatic substrate specificity: implications for the early evolution of metabolic pathways. (1995) (27)
Origin and Ancestor: Separate Environments (1999) (26)
Debating Evidence for the Origin of Life on Earth (2007) (26)
The enhancement activites of histidyl-histidine in some prebiotic reactions (2005) (26)
A minimal living system and the origin of a protocell. (1984) (26)
Primitive Earth Environments: Organic Syntheses and the Origin and Early Evolution of Life (1983) (26)
Paralogous histidine biosynthetic genes: evolutionary analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HIS6 and HIS7 genes. (1997) (26)
Structure, function and evolution of the hemerythrin‐like domain superfamily (2018) (24)
Norvaline and Norleucine May Have Been More Abundant Protein Components during Early Stages of Cell Evolution (2013) (24)
Which Way to Life? (2010) (24)
Evolutionary convergence in the biosyntheses of the imidazole moieties of histidine and purines (2018) (24)
What Is Life? (2008) (23)
Molecular Evolution of the Oxygen-Binding Hemerythrin Domain (2016) (23)
On the origin of mitosing cells: A historical appraisal of Lynn Margulis endosymbiotic theory. (2017) (22)
On the early emergence of reverse transcription: Theoretical basis and experimental evidence (1992) (22)
The Nature of the Last Common Ancestor (2004) (22)
The cometary contribution to prebiotic chemistry. (1992) (21)
Comparative Analysis of Methodologies for the Detection of Horizontally Transferred Genes: A Reassessment of First-Order Markov Models (2005) (20)
5. Prebiotic Chemistry – Biochemistry – Emergence of Life (4.4–2 Ga) (2006) (19)
A phylogenetic approach to the early evolution of autotrophy: the case of the reverse TCA and the reductive acetyl-CoA pathways. (2014) (18)
Towards a Definition of Life: The Impossible Quest? (2008) (17)
The biochemical roots of the RNA world: from zymonucleic acid to ribozymes. (2012) (17)
Prebiotic evolution and the origin of cells (1986) (17)
Protein Disulfide Oxidoreductases and the Evolution of Thermophily: Was the Last Common Ancestor a Heat-Loving Microbe? (2007) (16)
Giardia lamblia: Identification of peroxisomal-like proteins. (2018) (16)
Comets and life in the Universe. (1995) (16)
Reconstructing evolutionary relationships from functional data: a consistent classification of organisms based on translation inhibition response. (2005) (15)
Alexandr I. Oparin and the Origin of Life: A Historical Reassessment of the Heterotrophic Theory (2016) (15)
Composition-based methods to identify horizontal gene transfer. (2009) (14)
Early Life: Embracing the RNA World (2018) (14)
What Is Life? A Brief Historical Overview (2008) (13)
Astrobiology: Frontier or fiction (2012) (13)
The forgotten dispute: A.I. Oparin and H.J. Muller on the origin of life. (2012) (13)
Enhanced Synthesis of Alkyl Amino Acids in Miller’s 1958 H2S Experiment (2011) (13)
Methanogenesis on Early Stages of Life: Ancient but Not Primordial (2018) (13)
A yellow flag on the horizon: the looming threat of yellow fever to North America. (2019) (13)
Polyphyletic gene losses can bias backtrack characterizations of the cenancestor (1997) (12)
Herrera's 'Plasmogenia' and Other Collected Works (2014) (12)
Enantioselective aldol reaction catalysed by polyleucines (2007) (12)
Low complexity regions (LCRs) contribute to the hypervariability of the HIV-1 gp120 protein. (2013) (12)
Alarmones as Vestiges of a Bygone RNA World (2018) (12)
Can an Imidazole Be Formed from an Alanyl-Seryl-Glycine Tripeptide under Possible Prebiotic Conditions? (2017) (11)
Just How Pregnant Is the Universe? (2003) (11)
Complexity, self-organization and the origin of life: The happy liaison? (2009) (11)
Prebiotic Evolution and Self-Assembly of Nucleic Acids. (2018) (11)
Miller revealed new ways to study the origins of life (2002) (11)
Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres (2007) (9)
Evolution of the biosynthesis of the branched-chain amino acids (1995) (9)
Chemical evolution and the primitive soup: did Oparin get it all right? (1997) (8)
Heterologous Gene Expression in an Escherichia coli Population Under Starvation Stress Conditions (1998) (8)
The sulfocyanic theory on the origin of life: towards a critical reappraisal of an autotrophic theory (2003) (8)
Origin of Life (2007) (8)
Stanley Miller's 70th Birthday (2000) (8)
Should the Teaching of Biological Evolution Include the Origin of Life? (2010) (8)
On the Early Evolution of Catabolic Pathways: A Comparative Genomics Approach. I. The Cases of Glucose, Ribose, and the Nucleobases Catabolic Routes (2017) (7)
Structural analysis of viral ExoN domains reveals polyphyletic hijacking events (2021) (7)
Perceptions of science. Prebiotic soup--revisiting the Miller experiment. (2003) (7)
Planetary change and biochemical adaptation: molecular evolution of corrinoid and heme biosyntheses (2012) (7)
Studies on precellular evolution: the encapsulation of polyribonucleotides by liposomes. (1986) (6)
Prokaryotic symbiotic consortia and the origin of nucleated cells: A critical review of Lynn Margulis hypothesis (2021) (6)
Biogenesis: some like it hot. (1993) (6)
Quo vadis, Mexican science? (2019) (6)
The Cenancestor and Its Contemporary Biological Relics: The Case of Nucleic Acid Polymerases (2001) (6)
Liposomes with polyribonucleotides as model of precellular systems (1986) (6)
Membranes and prebiotic evolution: compartments, spatial isolation and the origin of life (2004) (5)
Natural History, Microbes and Sequences: Shouldn't We Look Back Again to Organisms? (2011) (5)
Teaching Evolution in Mexico: Preaching to the Choir (2005) (5)
Mexican and U.S. scientists: Partners (2017) (5)
The origin and early evolution of nucleic acid polymerases. (1992) (5)
An Answer in Search of a Question (2004) (5)
Coenzymes, viruses and the RNA world. (2012) (5)
from the primitive soup to cyanobacteria: it may have taken less than 10 million years (1996) (4)
Latin America and the Dracula problem (1999) (4)
Two short low complexity regions (LCRs) are hallmark sequences of the Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant spike protein (2021) (4)
Comparing the evolutionary dynamics of predominant SARS-CoV-2 virus lineages co-circulating in Mexico (2023) (3)
Rna-Binding Peptides as Early Molecular Fossils (2000) (3)
The tempo and mode(s) of prebiotic evolution (1997) (3)
A redefinition of the Asp-Asp domain of reverse transcriptases (1992) (3)
Prebiotic Chemistry, Artificial Life, and Complexity Theory: What Do They Tell Us About the Origin of Biological Systems? (1995) (3)
Ancient gene duplications in RNA viruses revealed by protein tertiary structure comparisons (2021) (3)
The RNA World and the origin of life: A short history of a tidy evolutionary narrative (2015) (3)
Ancient Paralogous Duplications and the Search for Archean Cells (1994) (3)
Metalloproteins and the Pyrite-based Origin of Life: A Critical Assessment (2011) (3)
Panspermia—true or false? (2003) (3)
Fully deuterated aliphatic hydrocarbons obtained from iron carbide treated with dcl and D2O (1996) (3)
Molecular Biology and the Reconstruction of Microbial Phylogenies: Des Liaisons Dangereuses? (2000) (3)
Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Possible Primordial Genetic Polymer (2001) (2)
Structural Analysis of Monomeric RNA-Dependent Polymerases Revisited (2022) (2)
Question 7: Comparative Genomics and Early Cell Evolution: A Cautionary Methodological Note (2007) (2)
Stanley L. Miller (1930–2007): Reflections and Remembrances (2008) (2)
Evolutionary theory: it's on the school syllabus in Mexico (2008) (2)
The young Ramón y Cajal as a cell-theory dissenter. (2008) (2)
Early Life: Embracing the RNA World (2018) (2)
The Pope, condoms, and the evolution of HIV. (2009) (1)
On the early evolution of reverse-transcriptase (1989) (1)
The Origins of Life Have too many cooks spoiled the prebiotic soup (2006) (1)
Liposomes with polyribonucleotides as models of precellular systems (2006) (1)
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Where, When and How? (2012) (1)
Recent advances in chemical evolution and the origins of life. (1992) (1)
A question without answers? (2014) (1)
Prebiotic Organic Synthesis and the Emergence of Life (2004) (1)
Future Perspectives and Strategies in Astrobiology (2004) (1)
Chance, Contingency and the Origins of Life: Some Historical Issues (1)
Where do big ideas come from (2009) (1)
The origins of life (2006) (1)
On the origin and early evolution of biological catalysis and other studies on chemical evolution (1991) (1)
Structural Analysis of Monomeric RNA-Dependent Polymerases (2017) (1)
Why does Evolution Matter? The Importance of Understanding Evolution Why does Evolution Matter? The Importance of Understanding Evolution (2014) (1)
How Did Life Originate (2013) (1)
Precellular Evolution and the Origin of Life: Some Notes on Reductionism, Complexity and Historical Contingency (2017) (1)
A Skeptical Afterword (2017) (1)
Astrobiology: Towards an Understanding of the Emergence of Life in the Universe (2004) (1)
Hooke and Generation of Molds (2003) (1)
Norvaline and Norleucine May Have Been More Abundant Protein Components during Early Stages of Cell Evolution (2013) (1)
The RNA World: Piecing together the historical development of a hypothesis (2016) (1)
On the Early Evolution of Catabolic Pathways: A Comparative Genomics Approach. I. The Cases of Glucose, Ribose, and the Nucleobases Catabolic Routes (2017) (1)
Subtle structural differences of nucleotide analogs may impact SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and exoribonuclease activity (2022) (1)
SARS-CoV-2 Exoribonuclease (NSP14) As a Potential Therapeutic Target to Treat COVID-19 (2020) (0)
Early Metabolic Evolution: Insights from Comparative Cellular Genomics (1998) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
First Life • David Deamer (2013) (0)
PLASMOGENY, A NEW SCIENCE OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE (2014) (0)
Prebiotic chemical evolution and the origin of life on Earth (2005) (0)
Did the Pre-RNA World Rest Upon DNA Molecules? (2004) (0)
The Vatican must understand that, in purely darwinian terms, HIV will never evolve resistance to condoms. (2009) (0)
The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Where, When and How? (2012) (0)
Structural Analysis of Monomeric RNA-Dependent Polymerases Revisited (2022) (0)
On the prebiological significance of the catalytic activity of histidyl-histidine (1989) (0)
Origins and Evolution of Life: Comparative genomics and early cell evolution (2010) (0)
Can an Imidazole Be Formed from an Alanyl-Seryl-Glycine Tripeptide under Possible Prebiotic Conditions? (2016) (0)
Is the Universe teeming with life? (2020) (0)
Book Review:Evolution of Microbial Life D. McL Roberts, P. Sharp, G. Alderson, M. A. Collin (1999) (0)
Bioastronomy 2004. (2005) (0)
Alarmones as Vestiges of a Bygone RNA World (2019) (0)
Chemical Evolution II: From Origins of Life to Modern Society American Chemical Society Symposium and Book (2008) (0)
Mind the Gap! (2009) (0)
Sofosbuvir as a potential alternative to treat the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (2020) (0)
A classification of rna polymerases based on their evolutionary relatedness (1989) (0)
Cells, Molecules and Evolution: Historical Issues in Molecular Evolution (2016) (0)
Methanogenesis on Early Stages of Life: Ancient but Not Primordial (2018) (0)
Chapter 4 Structural biology of the SARS-CoV-2 replisome: evolutionary and therapeutic implications (2022) (0)
A Reexamination of Alfonso Herrera’s Sulfocyanic Theory on the Origin of Life (2004) (0)
A Note on the Potential Clinical Use of Sofosbuvir to Treat COVID-19: The Importance of Protease Inhibitors (2020) (0)
The biosynthesis of histidine onGiardia lamblia (1996) (0)
Life: its origin and evolution (2009) (0)
Directed evolution experiments in histidine biosynthesis (1996) (0)
Cells, Molecules and Evolution: Historical Issues in Molecular Evolution (2016) (0)
On the Role of Genome Duplications in the Evolution of Prokaryotic Chromosomes (2000) (0)
[The challenges to science in Latin America]. (1997) (0)
CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY (2014) (0)
The Emergence of Life: Some Notes on the Origin of Biological Information (2018) (0)
Biotic Survivors (1997) (0)
How complex was the last common ancestor (1994) (0)
Early evolution of the histidine biosynthetic pathway (1996) (0)
Book review (2005) (0)
Alexandr I. Oparin and the Origin of Life: A Historical Reassessment of the Heterotrophic Theory (2016) (0)
Astrochemical Insights into the Origin of Life Reports on Progress in Physic s 65 , p . 1427 ( 2002 ) (2003) (0)
Origins of Life and Evolution of Intelligence (2009) (0)
RNA prior to DNA: The origin of archean cells (1986) (0)
Response (2009) (0)
The Beginning of Chemical Evolution Experiments (2004) (0)
The role of gene duplication in the patchwork assembly of nucleic acid base salvage pathways (1996) (0)
New Insights into Prebiotic Chemistry from Old Archived Miller Extracts (2011) (0)
An eukaryotic-type DNA topoisomerase is present inHalobacterium halobium (1996) (0)
A question without answers? (2013) (0)
Cellular RNA-Binding Domains with Distant Homology in Viral Proteomes (2018) (0)

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