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Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites
Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved October 22, 2019 (received for review April 25, 2019)

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- Published in issue December 3, 2019.
- Published first November 18, 2019.
Author Information
- Yoshihiro Furukawaa,1,
- Yoshito Chikaraishib,c,
- Naohiko Ohkouchic,
- Nanako O. Ogawac,
- Daniel P. Glavind,
- Jason P. Dworkind,
- Chiaki Abea, and
- Tomoki Nakamuraa
- aDepartment of Earth Science, Tohoku University, 980-8578 Sendai, Japan;
- bInstitute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0819 Sapporo, Japan;
- cBiogeochemistry Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 237-0061 Yokosuka, Japan;
- dSolar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved October 22, 2019 (received for review April 25, 2019)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: furukawa{at}tohoku.ac.jp.
Author contributions: Y.F. designed research; Y.F., Y.C., N.O.O., C.A., and T.N. performed research; Y.F., Y.C., N.O., N.O.O., D.P.G., and J.P.D. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; Y.F., Y.C., and N.O. analyzed data; and Y.F. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no competing interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1907169116/-/DCSupplemental.
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