PUBLICATIONS

Freyria, N. J., Lirette, A.O., O'Connor, B. R. W., Greer, C. & Whyte, L. G. (2025). Transcriptomic analyses unveil hydrocarbon degradation mechanisms in a newly isolated polar Rhodococcus strain R1B_2T from a high Arctic intertidal zone exposed to ultra-low sulfur fuel oil. Environmental Microbiology Reports.
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Freyria, N. J., de Oliveira, T. C., Meng, A., Pelletier, E. & Lovejoy, C. (2025). Shotgun metagenomics reveals the flexibility and diversity of Arctic marine microbiomes. ISME Communications.
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Chen, Y.-J., Altshuler, I., Freyria, N. J., Lirette, A.O., Góngora, E., Greer, C. W. & Whyte, L. G. (2024). Arctic's hidden hydrocarbon degradation microbes: Investigating the effects of hydrocarbon contamination, biostimulation, and a surface washing agent on microbial communities and hydrocarbon biodegradation pathways in high-Arctic beaches. Environmental Microbiome.

Góngora, E., Lirette, A. O., Freyria, N. J., Greer, C. & Whyte, L. G. (2024). Evaluating the hydrocarbon degradation potential of Canadian Arctic beaches. Environmental Microbiome.
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Freyria, N. J., de Oliveira, T. C., Chovatia, M., Johnson, J., Kuo, A., Lipzen, A., Barry, K. W., Grigoriev, I. V. & Lovejoy, C. (2024). Stress responses in an Arctic microalga (Pelagophyceae) following sudden salinity change revealed by gene expression analysis. Communications Biology.
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​​Freyria, N. J., Góngora, E., Greer, C. & Whyte, L. G. (2024). High Arctic seawater and coastal soil microbiome co-occurrence and composition structure and their potential hydrocarbon biodegradation. ISME Communications.
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de Oliveira, T. C., Freyria, N. J., Sarmiento-Villamil, J.-L., Porth, I., Tanguay, P. & Bernier, L. (2024). Unraveling the transcriptional features and gene expression networks of pathogenic and saprotrophic Ophiostoma species during the infection of Ulmus americana. Microbiology Spectrum.
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Lirette, A.-O., Chen, Y.-J., Freyria, N. J., Góngora, E. & Whyte, L. G. (2024). Characterization of hydrocarbon degraders from Northwest Passage beach sediments and assessment of their ability for bioremediation. Canadian Journal of Microbiology.
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Magnuson, E., Altshuler, I., Freyria, N. J., Leveille, R. J. & Whyte, L. G. (2023). Sulfur-cycling chemolithoautrophic microbial community dominates a cold, anoxic hypersaline Arctic spring. Microbiome.
 
Dorrell, R. G., Kuo, A., Füssy, Z., Richardson, E. H., Salamov, A., Zarevski, N., Freyria, N. J., ... & Lovejoy, C. (2023). Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae. Life science alliance.
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Freyria, N. J., Kuo, A., Chovatia, M., Johnson, J., Lipzen, A., Barry, K. W., ... & Lovejoy, C. (2022). Salinity tolerance mechanisms of an Arctic Pelagophyte using comparative transcriptomic and gene expression analysis. Communications Biology.
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Freyria, N. J. (2021). Aperçus taxonomiques et génomiques des communautés microbiennes face à un environnement fluctuant dans la Polynie des Eaux du Nord (Canda-Groenland). PhD Thesis.
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Joli, N., Lacour, T., Freyria, N. J., Royer, S. J., Babin, M., & Lovejoy, C. (2021). Two versions of short-term phytoplankton ecophysiology and taxonomic assemblages in the Arctic Ocean’s North Water (Canada, Greenland). Journal of Plankton Research.
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Freyria, N. J., Joli, N. & Lovejoy, C. (2021). A decadal perspective on north water microbial eukaryotes as Arctic Ocean sentinels. Scientific Reports.
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Faktorová, D., Nisbet, R. E. R., Robledo, J. A. F., Casacuberta, E., Sudek, L., Allen, A. E., ..., Freyria, N. J., ... & Beardslee, P. (2020). Genetic tool development in marine protists: Emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nature Methods.
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Cold, E. R., Freyria, N. J., Martinez, J. M., & Robledo, J. A. F. (2016). An agar-based method for plating marine protozoan parasites of the genus Perkinsus. PloS One.​​