Publications

• Lidbury I, Johnson V, Hall-Spencer JM, Munn CB & Cunliffe M (2012) Community-level response of coastal microbial biofilms to ocean acidification in a natural carbon dioxide vent ecosystem. Marine Pollution Bulletin doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.02.011
• Boden R, Cunliffe M, Scanlan J, Moussard H, Kits KD, Klotz MG, Jetten MS, Vuilleumier S, Han J, Peters L, Mikhailova N, Teshima H, Tapia R, Kyrpides N, Ivanova N, Pagani I, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Han C, Hauser L, Land ML, Lapidus A, Lucas S, Pitluck S, Woyke T, Stein L, Murrell JC. (2011) Complete genome sequence of the aerobic marine methanotroph Methylomonas methanica MC09. Journal of Bacteriology 193 (24): 7001-7002.
• Cunliffe M, Upstill-Goddard RC, Murrell JC (2011) Microbiology of aquatic surface microlayers. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 35 (2): 233-246
• Cunliffe M (2011) Correlating carbon monoxide oxidation with cox genes in the abundant Marine Roseobacter Clade. The ISME Journal 5: 685-691.
• Lobelle D, Cunliffe M (2011) Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris. Marine Pollution Bulletin 67: 197-200.
• Cunliffe, M., Murrell, J.C. (2010) Eukarya 18S rRNA gene diversity in the sea surface microlayer: insights on the structure of the neustonic microbial loop. The ISME Journal 4(3): 455-458.
• Cunliffe, M., Whiteley, A., Schäfer, H., Newbold, L., Oliver, A., R.C. Murrell, J.C. (2009) Comparison of bacterioneuston and bacterioplankton dynamics during a phytoplankton bloom in a fjord mesocosm. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75(22): 7173-7181.
• Cunliffe, M., Salter, M., Mann, P. J., Whiteley, A. S., Upstill-Goddard, R. C , Murrell, J. C. (2009) Dissolved organic carbon and bacterial populations in the gelatinous surface microlayer of a Norwegian fjord mesocosm. FEMS Microbiology Letters 299 (2): 248-254.
• Cunliffe, M., Harrison, E., Salter, M., Schäfer, H., Upstill-Goddard, R.C., Murrell, J.C. (2009) Comparison and validation of sampling strategies for the molecular microbial ecological analysis of surface microlayers. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 57: 69-77.
• Cunliffe, M., Murrell, J.C. (2009) The sea surface microlayer is a gelatinous biofilm. The ISME Journal 3: 1001-1003.
• Cunliffe, M., Schäfer, H., Harrison, E., Upstill-Goddard, R.C., Murrell, J.C. (2008) Phylogenetic and functional gene analysis of the bacterial and archaeal communities associated with the surface microlayer of an estuary. The ISME Journal 2: 776-789.
• Cunliffe, M., Kawasaki, A., Fellows, E. Kertesz, M.A. (2006) Effect of inoculum pretreatment on survival, activity and catabolic gene expression of Sphingobium yanoikuyae B1 in an aged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated soil. FEMS Microbial Ecology 58: 364-372.
• Cunliffe, M., Kertesz, M.A. (2006) Autecological properties of soil sphingomonads involved in the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 72: 1083-1089.
• Cunliffe, M., Kertesz, M.A. (2006) Effect of Sphingobium yanoikuyae B1 inoculation on bacterial community dynamics and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation in aged and freshly PAH- contaminated soils. Environmental Pollution 144: 228-237.