The list below highlights selected publications, updated as of May 2024. For a full and automatically updated list, check Dr Dunfield’s profile on Google Scholar.
Furgason C.C., Smirnova A.V., Dacks J.B., & Dunfield P.F. (2024). Phytoplankton ecology in the early years of a boreal oil sands end pit lake. Environ Microbiome. 19(1):3. [Read more]
Ruhl, I. A., Sheremet, A., Smirnova, A. V., Sharp, C. E., Grasby, S. E., Strous, M., & Dunfield, P. F. (2022). Microbial Functional Diversity Correlates with Species Diversity along a Temperature Gradient. mSystems, 7:1, 00991-21. [Read more]
Albakistani, E. A., Nwosu, F. C., Furgason, C., Haupt, E. S., Smirnova, A. V., Verbeke, T. J., Lee, E.-S., Kim, J.-J., Chan, A., Ruhl, I. A., Sheremet, A., Rudderham, S. B., Lindsay, M. B. J., & Dunfield, P. F. (2022). Seasonal Dynamics of Methanotrophic Bacteria in a Boreal Oil Sands End Pit Lake. Applied and Industrial Microbiology, 88:3, e01455-21. [Read more]
Murphy, C. L., Sheremet, A., Dunfield, P. F., Spear, J. R., Stepanauskas, R., Woke, T., Elshahed, M. S., & Youssef, N. H. (2021). Genomic Analysis of the Yet-Uncultured Binatota Reveals Broad Methylotrophic, Alkane-Degradation, and Pigment Production Capacities. mBio, 12:3, 00985-21. [Read more]
Sheremet, A., Jones, G.M., Jarett, J., Bowers, R.M., Bedard, I., Culham, C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E.A., Ivanova, N., Malmstrom, R.R., Grasby, S.E., Woyke, T. & Dunfield, P. F. (2020). Ecological and genomic analyses of candidate phylum WPS-2 bacteria in an unvegetated soil. Environ Microbiol, 22: 3143-3157. [Read more]
Rochman, F.F., Kwon, M., Khadka, R….& Dunfield, P. F., Verbeke, T. J. (2020). Novel copper-containing membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs) encoded by alkane-utilizing Betaproteobacteria. ISME J 14, 714–726. [Read more]
Richardson, E., Bass, D., Smirnova, A., Paoli, L., Dunfield, P., & Dacks, J. B. (2019). Phylogenetic Estimation of Community Composition and Novel Eukaryotic Lineages in Base Mine Lake, an Oil Sands Tailings Reclamation Site in Northern Alberta. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. [Read more]
Ruhl, I. A., Grasby, S. E., Haupt, E. S., & Dunfield, P. F. (2018). Analysis of microbial communities in natural halite springs reveals a domain‐dependent relationship of species diversity to osmotic stress. Environmental microbiology reports, 10(6), 695-703. [Read more]
La, H., Hettiaratchi, J. P. A., Achari, G., & Dunfield, P. F. (2018). Biofiltration of methane. Bioresource technology, 268, 759-772. [Read more]
La, H., Hettiaratchi, J. P. A., Achari, G., Verbeke, T. J., & Dunfield, P. F. (2018). Biofiltration of methane using hybrid mixtures of biochar, lava rock and compost. Environmental pollution, 241, 45-54. [Read more]
Khadka, R., Clothier, L., Wang, L., Lim, C. K., Klotz, M. G., & Dunfield, P. F. (2018). Evolutionary history of copper membrane monooxygenases. Frontiers in microbiology, 9, 2493. [Read more]
Dedysh, S. N., & Dunfield, P. F. (2018). Facultative methane oxidizers. Taxonomy, Genomics and Ecophysiology of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbes, 1-20. [Read more]
Rochman, F. F., Sheremet, A., Tamas, I., Saidi-Mehrabad, A., Kim, J. J., Dong, X., … & Dunfield, P. F. (2017). Benzene and naphthalene degrading bacterial communities in an oil sands tailings pond. Frontiers in microbiology, 8, 1845. [Read more]
Grasby, S., Ferguson, G., Brady, A., Sharp, C., Dunfield, P. F., & McMechan, M. (2017). Deep groundwater circulation through gas shales in mountain belts. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 17, 532-533. [Read more]
Aguilar, M., Richardson, E., Tan, B., Walker, G., Dunfield, P. F., Bass, D., … & Dacks, J. B. (2016). Next‐Generation Sequencing Assessment of Eukaryotic Diversity in Oil Sands Tailings Ponds Sediments and Surface Water. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 63(6), 732-743. [Read more]
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