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Folsome, Clair E., Kearns, Elizabeth A. 1981 "Measurement of Biological Activity in Materially Closed
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Folsome, Clair E. January l986 "Transplanting Earth’s Biosphere to Space", Testimony presented to the National Space Committee, unpublished paper

Folsome, Clair E. May 1987 "Closed Ecological Systems, Transplanting Earth’s Biosphere to Space",
Paper for the AIAA, unpublished

Folsome, Clair E. "Microbes – Unsung Heroes of Closed Ecosystems", Paper, Exobiology Laboratory,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, unpublished

Folsome, Clair E., Asato Yukio July 1970 "Temporal Genetic Mapping of the Blue-Green Alga, Anacystis Nidulans" Genetics 65: 407-419

Folsome, Clair E. 1977 "The Permuted Generator Hypothesis for the Origin of a Genetic Code" Origins of Life 8, 391-392

Folsome, Clair E. 1976 "Synthetic Organic Microstructures and the Origins of Cellular Life" Die Naturwissenschaften 63, 303-306

Folsome, Clair E., Fraser, Clarence 1975 "Exponential Kinetics of Formation of Organic Microstructures"
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Folsome, Clair E., Kearns, Elizabeth A. July 1982 "Closed Microbial Ecosystems as Gas Exchange Units in CELSS", SAE Technical Paper Series, 820857, Twelfth Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems, San Diego, California

Folsome, Clair E., Wright, D.H., Obenhuber, D. 1985 "Competition and Efficiency in Closed Freshwater Algal Systems: Tests of Ecosystem Design Principles", BioSystems 17, Exobiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, 233-239

Folsome, Clair E., Brittain, Andrew, Zelko, Michael 1983 "Photochemical Synthesis of Biomolecules Under Anoxic Conditions, Origins of Life 13, 49-55

Folsome, Clair E., et al, l981 "Hydrazines and Carbohydrazides Produced from Oxidized Carbon in Earth’s Primitive Environment", Nature Volume 294, Macmillian Journals Ltd.

Folsome, Clair E., Brittain, Andrew June 1981 "Model Protocells Photochemically Reduce Carbonate to Organic Carbon", Nature. Volume 291, No. 5815, pp 482-482

Folsome, C. E., Allen, R. D., Ichinose, N.K. 1975 "Organic Microstructures as Products of Miller-Urey Electrical Discharges", Precambrian Research 2, 263-275, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company,Amsterdam

Folsome, Clair E., Smith, A., Bahadur, K. 1981 "Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Nitrogenase Activity in
Organo-molybdenum Microstructures" Experientia 37, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel

Folsome, Clair E., Lawless, J., Romiez, M. July 1971, "Heterocyclic Compounds Indigenous to the Murchison Meteorite", Nature, Volume 232.No.5306, pp.108-109