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Publications that have referenced our products and services.
| Year | Sample Type | Target/Extraction | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | coffee roots | ITS1 | Gagliardi, S., Avelino, J., Fulthorpe, R., Virginio Filho, E. D., & Isaac, M. E. (2022). No evidence of foliar disease impact on crop root functional strategies and soil microbial communities: What does this mean for organic coffee? Oikos. doi:10.1111/oik.08987 |
| 2022 | Groundwater solids | 16S rRNA gene | Angai, J. U., Ptacek, C. J., Pakostova, E., Bain, J. G., Verbuyst, B. R., & Blowes, D. W. (2022). Removal of arsenic and metals from groundwater impacted by mine waste using zero-valent iron and organic carbon: Laboratory column experiments. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 424, 127295. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127295 |
| 2022 | water | DNA Extraction | Burton, E.A. 2022. Assessment of remote Patagonian riverine fish using environmental DNA. MSc Thesis. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. Retrieved from: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/18176/Burton_ErikaAlexandra.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y |
| 2022 | mine core samples (compost/soil) | 16S rRNA gene | Pakostova, E., McAlary, M., Marshall, S., McGarry, S., Ptacek, C. J., & Blowes, D. W. (2022). Microbiology of a multi-layer biosolid/desulfurized tailings cover on a mill tailings impoundment. Journal of Environmental Management, 302, 114030. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114030 |
| 2022 | biofilms | 16S rRNA gene | Koiter, L.E. 2022. The effect of glyphosate on bacteria and archaea community composition in freshwater biofilms. MSc Thesis. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. Retrieved from: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/18132/Koiter_Lauren.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y |
| 2021 | food waste | DNA Extraction | Hussain, A., Lee, J., Xiong, Z., Wang, Y., & Lee, H. (2021). Butyrate production and purification by combining dry fermentation of food waste with a microbial fuel cell. Journal of Environmental Management, 300, 113827. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113827 |
| 2021 | sediment | 16S rRNA gene | Radford, J. 2021. Influence of Temperature Cycling and Ethanol Amendment on Arsenic Mobility in a Contaminated Northern Wetland. MSc Thesis. University of Guelph. Guelph, ON. Retrieved from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10214/24721/Radford_Joseph_202103_MSc.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y |
| 2022 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Robinson, C.U. 2022. Assessing patterns and biogeochemical impacts of shrubification in sedge fens of the Hudson Bay subarctic tundra. MSc Thesis. Laurentian University. Sudbury, ON. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/bitstream/10219/3839/1/Chantae%20Robinson%20MSc.%20Thesis_Final_Jan2022.pdf |
| 2022 | tundra | DNA Extraction | Robinson, C.U. 2022. Assessing patterns and biogeochemical impacts of shrubification in sedge fens of the Hudson Bay subarctic tundra. MSc Thesis. Laurentian University. Sudbury, ON. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/bitstream/10219/3839/1/Chantae%20Robinson%20MSc.%20Thesis_Final_Jan2022.pdf |
| 2021 | rumen | 16S rRNA gene | Marquis-Hrabe, J. 2021. A metagenomic approach to understanding relationships between microbial communities in the bovine rumen and vitamin B12 abundance. MSc Thesis. McGill University. Montreal, QC. Retrieved from: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/gq67jw867 |
| 2021 | water | 18S rRNA gene | Desjardins, S.M., Laamanen, C.A., Basiliko, N., and Scott, J.A. 2021. Selection and re-acclimation of bioprospected acid-tolerant green microalgae suitable for growth at low pH. Extremophiles. 25: 129-141(2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-021-01216-1 |
| 2021 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Thomas-Barry, G., St-Martin, C.C.G., Lynch, M.D.J., Ramsubhag, A., Rouse-Miller, J., and Charles, T.C. 2021. Driving factors influencing the rhizobacteriome community structure of plants adapted to multiple climatic stressors in edaphic savannas. Sci. Total Environ. 769:145214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145214 |
| 2021 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | Stothart, M.R. and Newman, A.E.M. 2021. Shades of grey: Coat-colour dependent effect of urbanization on the bacterial microbiome of a wild mammal. bioRxiv 2021.02.16.431540; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.16.431540 |
| 2020 | soil | mcrA, 16S rRNA gene | Bear, S.E. 2020. Methanogen communities in peatlands of North America. Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3370. |
| 2020 | water | 16S rRNA gene | Cameron, E.S., Schmidt, P.J., Benjamin, J.-M., Emelko, M.B., Müller, K.M. 2020. To rarefy or not to rarefy: Enhancing microbial community analysis through next-generation sequencing. bioRxiv 2020.09.09.290049; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.09.290049 |
| 2020 | bioreactor | 18S rRNA gene | Desjardins, S.M. 2020. Adaptation of microalgae bioprospected from stressed environments in Northern Ontario for the production of lipids. PhD thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3639 |
| 2020 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Gupta, P.J., Gharedaghloo, B., Lynch, M., Cheng, J., Stracka, M., Charles, T.C., and Price, J.S. 2020. Dynamics of microbial populations and diversity in NAPL contaminated peat soil under varying water table conditions. Environ. Res. 191(2020): 110167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110167 |
| 2020 | soil | 16S rRNA gene, ITS1 | Asemaninejad, A., Munford, K., Watmough, S., Campbell, D., Glasauere, S., Basiliko, N., and Mykytczuk, N. 2020. Structure of microbial communities in amended and unamended acid-generating mine wastes along gradients of soil amelioration and revegetation. Agric., Ecosyst. Environ., Appl. Soil Ecol. 155: 103645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103645 |
| 2020 | water | 16S rRNA gene | Chik, A.H.S., Emelko, M.B., Anderson, W. B., O’Sullivan, K.E., Savio, D., Farnleitner, A.H., Blaschke, A.P., and Schijven, J.F. 2020. Evaluation of groundwater bacterial community composition to inform waterborne pathogen vulnerability assessments. Sci. Total Environ. 140472 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140472 |
| 2020 | swab | 16S rRNA gene | Douglas, A.J., Hug, L.A. & Katzenback, B.A. 2020. Composition of the north american wood frog (Rana sylvatica) bacterial skin microbiome and seasonal variation in community Structure. Microb Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01550-5. |
| 2020 | leaf pack | 16S rRNA gene, ITS1 | Erdozain, M., Emilson, C. E., Kreutzweiser, D. P., Kidd, K. A., Mykytczuk, N., and Sibley, P. K.. 2020. Forest management influences the effects of streamside wet areas on stream ecosystems. Ecol Appl. 30(4): https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2077 |
| 2020 | fecal, rumen | 16S rRNA gene | Franco-Lopez J., Duplessis, M., Bui, A., Reymond, C., Poisson, W., Blais, L., Chong, J., Gervais, R., Rico, D.E., Cue, R.I., Girard, C.L., and Ronholm, J.. 2020. Correlations between the composition of the bovine microbiota and vitamin B12 abundance. mSystems 5:e00107-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00107-20 |
| 2020 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Gupta, V. 2020. A systematic study of interaction effects between plants, microbes, and metals in a model constructed wetland system treating mining influenced waters. PhD thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3506 |
| 2020 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Gupta, V., Courtemanche, J., Gunn, J., and Mykytczuk, N. 2020. Shallow floating treatment wetland capable of sulfate reduction in acid mine drainage impacted waters in a northern climate. J. Environ. Manage. 263: 110351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110351 |
| 2020 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Ordonez, P.A.C. 2020. Frequency of soybean in rotation and persistence of Rhizobia in Manitoba soils. MSc thesis, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34649 |
| 2020 | ground | 16S rRNA gene | Pakostova, E., Johnson, D.B., Bao, Z., MacKenzie, P.M., Ptacek, C.J., and Blowes, D.W. 2020. Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity in Sulfide-Bearing Waste Rock at Faro Mine Complex, Yukon Territory, Canada, Geomicrobiol. J. 37(6): 511-519, https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2020.1731020 |
| 2020 | ground | 16S rRNA gene | Pakostova, E., Schmall, A. J., Holland, S. P., White, H., Ptacek, C. J., and Blowes, D. W. 2020. Performance of a geosynthetic clay-liner cover system at a Cu/Zn mine tailings impoundment: microbiological characterization. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02846-19 |
| 2020 | swab | 16S rRNA gene | Rullo, J., Far, P.M., Quinn, M. Sharma, N., Bae, S., Irrcher, I., and Sharma, S. 2020. Local oral and nasal microbiome diversity in age-related macular degeneration. Sci. Rep. 10: 3862 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60674-3 |
| 2020 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | van Leeuwen, P., Mykytczuk, N., Mastromonaco, G.F., and Schulte‐Hostedde, A.I. 2020. Effects of captivity, diet, and relocation on the gut bacterial communities of white‐footed mice. Ecol. Evol. 10: 4677– 4690. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6221 |
| 2019 | bioreactor | 16S rRNA gene | Bieniek, A.K. 2019. A metagenomic analysis of tailings microbial communities from both cold and hot environments. MSc thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3370. |
| 2019 | soil | mcrA, 16S rRNA gene | Carson, M.A., Bräuer, S., and Basiliko, N. 2019. Enrichment of peat yields novel methanogens: approaches for obtaining uncultured organisms in the age of rapid sequencing. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 95(2): fiz001. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz001 |
| 2019 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Dart, M.M. 2019. The impacts of environmental changes on peatland microbial community structure and function. MSc thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3348 |
| 2019 | soil | 16S rRNA gene, ITS1 | Jones, J.M.C., Webb, E.A., Lynch, M.D.J., Charles, T.C., Antunes, P.M., and Guinel, F.C. 2019. Does a carbonatite deposit influence its surrounding ecosystem?. FACETS 4: 389–406. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2018-0029 |
| 2019 | ground | 16S rRNA gene | Kirkwood, A.H. 2019. Microbial community and C cycling across permafrost peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowlands: feedbacks to in-situ degradation and simulated warming. MSc thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3388 |
| 2019 | soil, sludge | 16S rRNA gene | Mullins, N. R., and Daugulis, A. J. 2019. The biological treatment of synthetic fracking fluid in an extractive membrane bioreactor: selective transport and biodegradation of hydrophobic and hydrophilic contaminants. J. Hazard. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.01.003 |
| 2019 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | Schmidt, E., Mykytczuk, N., and Schulte-Hostedde, A.I. 2019. Effects of the captive and wild environment on diversity of the gut microbiome of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). ISME J. 13: 1293–1305. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0345-8. |
| 2019 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | Stothart, M.R., Palme, R., and Newman, A.E.M. 2019. It's what's on the inside that counts: stress physiology and the bacterial microbiome of a wild urban mammal. Proc. R. Soc. B. 286: 20192111. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2111. |
| 2018 | sludge | 16S rRNA gene | Asemaninejad, A., Arteaga, J., Spiers, G., Beckett, P., McGarry, S., Mykytczuk, N., & Basiliko, N. 2018. Blended pulp mill, forest humus and mine residual material Technosols for mine reclamation: A growth-chamber study to explore the role of physiochemical properties of substrates and microbial inoculation on plant growth. J. Environ. Manage., 228: 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.08.114 |
| 2018 | tailings | 16S rRNA gene | Principe, E. 2018. Evaluating mineralogical, geochemical and microbial relationships within sulfur-bearing mine wastes; a multianalytical and multivariate statistical approach. MSc thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3179 |
| 2018 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | Schmidt, E.A. 2018. Environment-microbe-host interactions: understanding the relationship between the external environment, gut microbiome diversity, and host immunocompetence. MSc thesis. Laurentian University. Sudbury. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3004 |
| 2018 | soil | 16S rRNA gene | Emilson, E.J.S., Carson, M.A., Yakimovich, K.M., Osterholz, H., Dittmar, T., Gunn, J.M., Mykytczuk, N.C.S., Basiliko, N., Tanentzap, A.J. 2018. Climate-driven shifts in sediment chemistry enhance methane production in northern lakes. Nat. Commun. 9:1801. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04236-2 |
| 2018 | rock | 16S rRNA gene | Valiquette, N.L. 2018. Genomic insights into the psychrotrophic microbial leaching of low sulfide waste rock in kinetic testing systems. MSc thesis. Laurentian University. Sudbury. Retrieved from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3224 |
| 2018 | leachate | 16S rRNA gene | Xiong, Z., Hussain, A., Lee, J., and Lee, H.-S. 2018. Food waste fermentation in a leach bed reactor: reactor performance, and microbial ecology and dynamics. Bioresour. Technol. 274: 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2018.11.066 |
| 2018 | sediment | 16S rRNA gene, mcrA, ITS1 | Yakimovich, K.M., Emilson, E.J.S., Carson, M.A., Tanentzap, A.J., Basiliko, N., and Mykytczuk, N.C.S. 2018. Plant litter type dictates microbial communities responsible for greenhouse gas production in amended lake sediments. Front. Microbiol. 9: 2662. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02662 |
| 2017 | swab | 16S rRNA gene | Bobbie, C.B., Mykytczuk, N.C.S., and Schulte-Hostedde, A.I. 2017. Temporal variation of the microbiome is dependent on body region in a wild mammal (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 93(7): fix081. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix081 |
| 2016 | fecal | 16S rRNA gene | Stothart, M.R., Bobbie, C.B.., Schulte-Hostedde, A.I., Boonstra, R., Palme, R., Mykytczuk N.C.S., and Newman, A.E.M. 2016. Stress and the microbiome: linking glucocorticoids to bacterial community dynamics in wild red squirrels. Biol. Lett. 12: 20150875. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0875 |
| 2020 | fecal | whole genome shotgun | Donovan M, Lynch MDJ, Mackey CS, Platt GN, Washburn BK, Vera DL, Trickey DJ, Charles TC, Wang Z, Jones KM. 2020. Metagenome-assembled genome sequences of five strains from the Microtus ochrogaster (prairie vole) fecal microbiome. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9:e01310-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01310-19. |
| 2020 | tissue | 16S rRNA gene | Lobb, B., Hodgson, R., Lynch, M.D.J., Mansfield, M.J., Cheng, J., Charles, T.C., Neufeld, J.D., Craig, P.M., Doxey, A.C. 2020. Time series resolution of the fish necrobiome reveals a decomposer succession involving toxigenic bacterial pathogens. mSystems 5 (2) e00145-20 https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00145-20. |
| 2019 | custom | silE, silABC | Martinez, A.R., Heil, J.R., Charles, T.C. 2019. An engineered GFP fluorescent bacterial biosensor for detecting and quantifying silver and copper ions. Biometals 32: 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10534-019-00179-3 |
| 2017 | colony | complete genome sequence | Heil, J.R., Lynch, M.D.J., Cheng, J., Matysiakiewicz, D’Alessio, M., Charles, T.C. The completed PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time sequence of Methylosinus trichosporium strain OB3b reveals the presence of a third large plasmid. Genome Announcements: 5:e01349-17; https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01349-17. |