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Gregson, Benjamin H and Bani, Alessia and Steinfield, Laurel and Holt, Diane and Whitby, Corinne (2022) Anaerobes and methanogens dominate the microbial communities in water harvesting ponds used by Kenyan rural smallholder farmers. Science of the Total Environment, 819. p. 153040. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153040

Clark, Dave R and McKew, Boyd A and Binley, Andrew and Heppell, Catherine M and Whitby, Corinne and Trimmer, Mark (2022) Hydrological properties predict the composition of microbial communities cycling methane and nitrogen in rivers. ISME Communications, 2 (1). 5-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00087-7

McKew, Boyd A and Johnson, Richard and Clothier, Lindsay and Skeels, Karl and Ross, Matthew S and Metodiev, Metodi and Frenzel, Max and Gieg, Lisa M and Martin, Jonathan W and Hough, Michael A and Whitby, Corinne (2021) Differential protein expression during growth on model and commercial mixtures of naphthenic acids in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf‐5. MicrobiologyOpen, 10 (4). e1196-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1196

Scarlett, Kelly and Denman, Sandra and Clark, David R and Forster, Jack and Vanguelova, Elena and Brown, N and Whitby, Corinne (2021) Relationships between nitrogen cycling microbial community abundance and composition reveal the indirect effect of soil pH on oak decline. The ISME Journal, 15 (3). pp. 623-635. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00801-0

Ferguson, Robert MW and Neath, Charlotte EE and Nasir, Zaheer A and Garcia-Alcega, Sonia and Tyrrel, Sean and Coulon, Frederic and Dumbrell, Alex J and Colbeck, Ian and Whitby, Corinne (2021) Size fractionation of bioaerosol emissions from green-waste composting. Environment International, 147. p. 106327. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106327

Grydaki, Nikoletta and Colbeck, Ian and Mendes, Luis and Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos and Whitby, Corinne (2021) Bioaerosols in the Athens Metro: Metagenetic insights into the PM₁₀ microbiome in a naturally ventilated subway station. Environment International, 146. p. 106186. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106186

Caires, Cynthia SA and Farias, Luiz AS and Gomes, Luiz E and Pinto, Bruno P and Gonçalves, Daniel A and Zagonel, Luiz F and Nascimento, Valter A and Alves, Diego CB and Colbeck, Ian and Whitby, Corinne and Caires, Anderson RL and Wender, Heberton (2020) Effective killing of bacteria under blue-light irradiation promoted by green synthesized silver nanoparticles loaded on reduced graphene oxide sheets. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 113. p. 110984. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.110984

Thomas, Gareth E and Cameron, Tom C and Campo, Pablo and Clark, Dave R and Coulon, Frederic and Gregson, Benjamin H and Hepburn, Leanne J and McGenity, Terry J and Miliou, Anastasia and Whitby, Corinne and McKew, Boyd A (2020) Bacterial Community Legacy Effects Following the Agia Zoni II Oil-Spill, Greece. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. 1706-. DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01706

McGenity, Terry J and Gessesse, Amare and Hallsworth, John E and Garcia Cela, Esther and Verheecke‐Vaessen, Carol and Wang, Fengping and Chavarría, Max and Haggblom, Max M and Molin, Søren and Danchin, Antoine and Smid, Eddy J and Lood, Cédric and Cockell, Charles S and Whitby, Corinne and Liu, Shuang‐Jiang and Keller, Nancy P and Stein, Lisa Y and Bordenstein, Seth R and Lal, Rup and Nunes, Olga C and Gram, Lone and Singh, Brajesh K and Webster, Nicole S and Morris, Cindy and Sivinski, Sharon and Bindschedler, Saskia and Junier, Pilar and Antunes, André and Baxter, Bonnie K and Scavone, Paola and Timmis, Kenneth (2020) Visualizing the invisible: class excursions to ignite children’s enthusiasm for microbes. Microbial Biotechnology, 13 (4). pp. 844-887. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13576

Garcia-Alcega, Sonia and Nasir, Zaheer Ahmad and Cipullo, Sabrina and Ferguson, Robert MW and Yan, Cheng and Whitby, Corinne and Dumbrell, Alex J and Drew, Gillian and Colbeck, Ian and Tyrrel, Sean and Coulon, Frederic (2020) Fingerprinting ambient air to understand bioaerosol profiles in three different environments in the south east of England. Science of the Total Environment, 719. p. 137542. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137542

Clark, Dave R and McKew, Boyd A and Dong, Liang F and Leung, Garwai and Dumbrell, Alex J and Stott, Andrew and Grant, Helen and Nedwell, David B and Trimmer, Mark and Whitby, Corinne (2020) Mineralization and nitrification: Archaea dominate ammonia-oxidising communities in grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 143. p. 107725. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107725

Folwell, Benjamin D and McGenity, Terry J and Whitby, Corinne (2020) Diamondoids are not forever: microbial biotransformation of diamondoid carboxylic acids. Microbial Biotechnology, 13 (2). pp. 495-508. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13500

Freeman, D and Bajón Fernández, Y and Wilson, A and McKew, BA and Whitby, C and Clark, DR and Jefferson, B and Coulon, F and Hassard, F (2020) Nitrogen oxidation consortia dynamics influence the performance of full-scale rotating biological contactors. Environment International, 135. p. 105354. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105354

Ferguson, Robert MW and Garcia-Alcega, Sonia and Coulon, Frederic and Dumbrell, Alex J and Whitby, Corinne and Colbeck, Ian (2019) Bioaerosol Biomonitoring: Sampling Optimisation for Molecular Microbial Ecology. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19 (3). pp. 672-690. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13002

Garcia-Alcega, Sonia and Nasir, Zaheer Ahmad and Ferguson, Robert MW and Noël, Cyril and Cravo-Laureau, Cristiana and Whitby, Corinne and Dumbrell, Alex J and Colbeck, Ian and Tyrrel, Sean and Coulon, Frederic (2018) Can chemical and molecular biomarkers help discriminate between industrial, rural and urban environments? Science of the Total Environment, 631–63. pp. 1059-1069. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.062

Beddow, Jessica and Stolpe, Björn and Cole, Paula A and Lead, Jamie R and Sapp, Melanie and Lyons, Brett P and Colbeck, Ian and Whitby, Corinne (2017) Nanosilver inhibits nitrification and reduces ammonia‐oxidising bacterial but not archaeal <i>amoA</i> gene abundance in estuarine sediments. Environmental Microbiology, 19 (2). pp. 500-510. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13441

Garcia-Alcega, Sonia and Nasir, ZaheerA and Ferguson, Robert MW and Whitby, Corinne and Dumbrell, Alex J and Colbeck, Ian and Gomes, Diogo and Tyrrel, Sean and Coulon, Frederic (2017) Fingerprinting outdoor air environment using microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) – A review. TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 86. pp. 75-83. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2016.10.010

Tatti, Enrico and McKew, Boyd A and Whitby, Corrine and Smith, Cindy J (2016) Simultaneous DNA-RNA Extraction from Coastal Sediments and Quantification of 16S rRNA Genes and Transcripts by Real-time PCR. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016 (112). DOI https://doi.org/10.3791/54067

Lansdown, K and McKew, BA and Whitby, C and Heppell, CM and Dumbrell, AJ and Binley, A and Olde, L and Trimmer, M (2016) Importance and controls of anaerobic ammonium oxidation influenced by riverbed geology. Nature Geoscience, 9 (5). pp. 357-360. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2684

Folwell, BD and McGenity, TJ and Whitby, C (2016) Biofilm and planktonic bacterial and fungal communities transforming high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (8). pp. 2288-2299. DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03713-15

Folwell, Benjamin D and McGenity, Terry J and Price, Andrew and Johnson, Richard J and Whitby, Corinne (2016) Exploring the capacity for anaerobic biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids by microbes from oil-sands-process-affected waters. International Biodeterioration &amp; Biodegradation, 108. pp. 214-221. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2014.12.016

Beddow, Jessica and Johnson, Richard J and Lawson, Tracy and Breckels, Mark N and Webster, Richard J and Smith, Ben E and Rowland, Steven J and Whitby, Corinne (2016) The effect of oil sands process-affected water and model naphthenic acids on photosynthesis and growth in Emiliania huxleyi and Chlorella vulgaris. Chemosphere, 145. pp. 416-423. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.11.046

Li, Jialin and Nedwell, David B and Beddow, Jessica and Dumbrell, Alex J and McKew, Boyd A and Thorpe, Emma L and Whitby, Corinne (2015) <i>amoA</i> Gene Abundances and Nitrification Potential Rates Suggest that Benthic Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Not Archaea Dominate N Cycling in the Colne Estuary, United Kingdom. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81 (1). pp. 159-165. DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02654-14

Beddow, Jessica and Stölpe, Björn and Cole, Paula A and Lead, Jamie R and Sapp, Melanie and Lyons, Brett P and McKew, Boyd and Steinke, Michael and Benyahia, Farid and Colbeck, Ian and Whitby, Corinne (2014) Estuarine sediment hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities demonstrate resilience to nanosilver. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 96. pp. 206-215. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2014.09.004

Beddow, Jessica and Stolpe, Björn and Cole, Paula and Lead, Jamie R and Sapp, Melanie and Lyons, Brett P and Colbeck, Ian and Whitby, Corinne (2014) Effects of engineered silver nanoparticles on the growth and activity of ecologically important microbes. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6 (5). pp. 448-458. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12147

Papaspyrou, S and Smith, CJ and Dong, LF and Whitby, C and Dumbrell, AJ and Nedwell, DB (2014) Nitrate Reduction Functional Genes and Nitrate Reduction Potentials Persist in Deeper Estuarine Sediments. Why? PLoS One, 9 (4). e94111-e94111. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094111

Johnson, Richard J and Smith, Ben E and Rowland, Steven J and Whitby, Corinne (2013) Biodegradation of alkyl branched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids by Pseudomonas putida KT2440. International Biodeterioration &amp; Biodegradation, 81. pp. 3-8. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2011.11.008

McKew, BA and Dumbrell, AJ and Daud, SD and Hepburn, L and Thorpe, E and Mogensen, L and Whitby, C (2012) Characterization of Geographically Distinct Bacterial Communities Associated with Coral Mucus Produced by Acropora spp. and Porites spp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78 (15). pp. 5229-5237. DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.07764-11

Johnson, Richard J and West, Charles E and Swaih, Aisha M and Folwell, Ben D and Smith, Ben E and Rowland, Steven J and Whitby, Corinne (2012) Aerobic biotransformation of alkyl branched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids via two different pathways by a new isolate of <i>Mycobacterium</i>. Environmental Microbiology, 14 (4). pp. 872-882. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02649.x

Pankhurst, Louise J and Whitby, Corinne and Pawlett, Mark and Larcombe, Lee D and McKew, Boyd and Deacon, Lewis J and Morgan, Sarah L and Villa, Raffaella and Drew, Gillian H and Tyrrel, Sean and Pollard, Simon JT and Coulon, Frédéric (2012) Temporal and spatial changes in the microbial bioaerosol communities in green-waste composting. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 79 (1). pp. 229-239. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01210.x

Rowland, SJ and Jones, D and Scarlett, AG and West, CE and Hin, Liu Pok and Boberek, M and Tonkin, A and Smith, BE and Whitby, C (2011) Synthesis and toxicity of some metabolites of the microbial degradation of synthetic naphthenic acids. Science of The Total Environment, 409 (15). pp. 2936-2941. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.012

Johnson, Richard J and Smith, Ben E and Sutton, Paul A and McGenity, Terry J and Rowland, Steven J and Whitby, Corinne (2011) Microbial biodegradation of aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids is affected by the degree of alkyl side chain branching. The ISME Journal, 5 (3). pp. 486-496. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.146

Farage, P and Ball, AS and McGenity, TJ and Whitby, C and Pretty, JN (2010) Reply to Comment on: `Burning management and carbon sequestration of upland heather moorland in the UK'. Australian Journal Of Soil Research, 48 (1). 104 - 104. DOI https://doi.org/10.1071/SR09166R

Farage, P and Ball, AS and McGenity, TJ and Whitby, C and Pretty, JN (2010) Reply to Comment on: `Burning management and carbon sequestration of upland heather moorland in the UK'. Australian Journal Of Soil Research, 48 (1). p. 104. DOI https://doi.org/10.1071/SR09166R

Whitby, C (2010) Microbial Naphthenic Acid Degradation. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, VOL 70, 70. pp. 93-125. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2164(10)70003-4

Whitby, C and Johnson, RJ and Smith, B and Robinson, K and Rowland, S (2009) Biodegradation of naphthenic acids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (13). creators-Whitby=3ACorinne=3A=3A.

Smith, Benjamin E and Lewis, C Anthony and Belt, Simon T and Whitby, Corinne and Rowland, Steven J (2008) Effects of Alkyl Chain Branching on the Biotransformation of Naphthenic Acids. Environmental Science &amp; Technology, 42 (24). pp. 9323-9328. DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/es801922p

Zakaria, Dalia and Lappin‐Scott, Hilary and Burton, Sara and Whitby, Corinne (2007) Bacterial diversity in soil enrichment cultures amended with 2 (2‐methyl‐4‐chlorophenoxy) propionic acid (mecoprop). Environmental Microbiology, 9 (10). pp. 2575-2587. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01375.x

Whitby, C and Bailey, M and Whiteley, A and Murrell, C and Kilham, K and Prosser, J and Lappin-Scott, H (2005) Stable isotope probing links taxonomy with function in microbial communities. ASM News, 71 (4). pp. 169-173.

Whitby, C and Earl, J and Lanyon, C and Gray, S and Robinson, J and Meadows, J and Edwards, C (2004) The molecular diversity of the methanogenic community in a hypereutrophic freshwater lake determined by PCR-RFLP. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 97 (5). pp. 973-984. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02378.x

Whitby, CB and Hall, G and Pickup, R and Saunders, JR and Ineson, P and Parekh, NR and McCarthy, A (2001) 13C incorporation into DNA as a means of identifying the active components of ammonia-oxidizer populations. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 32 (6). pp. 398-401. DOI https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-765x.2001.00930.x

Whitby, Corinne B and Saunders, Jon R and Pickup, Roger W and McCarthy, Alan J (2001) A comparison of ammonia-oxidiser populations in eutrophic and oligotrophic basins of a large freshwater lake. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 79 (2). pp. 179-188. DOI https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010202211368

Whitby, Corinne B and Saunders, Jon R and Rodriguez, Juana and Pickup, Roger W and McCarthy, Alan (1999) Phylogenetic Differentiation of Two Closely Related <i>Nitrosomonas</i> spp. That Inhabit Different Sediment Environments in an Oligotrophic Freshwater Lake. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65 (11). pp. 4855-4862. DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.65.11.4855-4862.1999

Book Section

Underwood, Graham JC and Dumbrell, Alex J and McGenity, Terry J and McKew, Boyd A and Whitby, Corinne (2022) The Microbiome of Coastal Sediments. In: The Marine Microbiome. The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment, 3 . Springer International Publishing, pp. 479-534. ISBN 9783030903824. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90383-1_12

Nedwell, DB and Underwood, GJC and McGenity, TJ and Whitby, C and Dumbrell, AJ (2016) The Colne Estuary. In: Advances in Ecological Research. Elsevier, pp. 227-281. ISBN 978-0-08-100935-2.

Smith, CJ and Mckew, BA and Coggan, A and Whitby, C (2016) Primers: Functional Genes for Nitrogen-Cycling Microbes in Oil Reservoirs. In: Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols. Springer, pp. 207-241. ISBN 978-3-662-50427-7.

McGenity, TJ and Whitby, C and Fahy, A (2010) Alkaliphilic hydrocarbon degraders. In: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, pp. 1931-1937. ISBN 9783540775881.

Price, A and �lvarez, LA and Whitby, C and Larsen, J (2010) How Many Microorganisms Are Present? Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). In: Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oilfield Systems. Springer, pp. 77-84. ISBN 978-90-481-9251-9.

Whitby, C and Meade, R and Hall, G and Saunders, JR and Pickup, RW and McCarthy, AJ (2001) Molecular genetic analysis of the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community in a defined hypereutrophic freshwater lake. In: Genes in the Environment 15th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Cambridge University Press/British Ecological Society, pp. 167-186. ISBN 9780521549349.

Monograph

Holt, D and Whitby, C (2017) Exploring the use of a low-tech tool for conservation agriculture - a field experiment in Kenya. UNSPECIFIED. University of Essex.

Book

Whitby, C and Skovhus, TL (2011) Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oilfield Systems. Proceedings from the International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Systems (ISMOS-2), 2009 . Springer, Berlin. ISBN 978-90-481-9251-9.