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List of works by R. Michael McKay

A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization.

scientific article

A terrestrial origin for abundant riverine nanoscale ice-nucleating particles

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Abundance and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in sediments of trophic end members of the Laurentian Great Lakes, Erie and Superior.

scientific article

Ammonium recycling supports toxic Planktothrix blooms in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie: Evidence from stable isotope and metatranscriptome data

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Antibiotic pollution promotes dominance by harmful cyanobacteria: A case study examining norfloxacin exposure in competition experiments

scientific article

Binational Efforts Addressing Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes

scientific article

Biocidal performance of acrylated glyphosate in a model photopolymerizable coating formulation.

scientific article published on 6 August 2008

Collecting winter data on U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers

Community dynamics and function of algae and bacteria during winter in central European great lakes

scientific article

Comparison of approaches to quantify SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using RT-qPCR: Results and implications from a collaborative inter-laboratory study in Canada

scientific article

Construction and initial characterization of a luminescent Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 Fe-dependent bioreporter

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Cyanobacterial bioreporters as sensors of nutrient availability.

scientific article published on January 2010

Declines in ice cover induce light limitation in freshwater diatoms

Detection and expression of genes for phosphorus metabolism in picocyanobacteria from the Laurentian Great Lakes

article published in 2013

Detection and expression of the phosphonate transporter gene phnD in marine and freshwater picocyanobacteria.

scientific article

Diatom assemblages promote ice formation in large lakes

scientific article published on April 4, 2013

Early onset of a microcystin-producing cyanobacterial bloom in an agriculturally-influenced Great Lakes tributary

scholarly article

Ecology under lake ice

scientific article

Ecophysiological Examination of the Lake Erie Microcystis Bloom in 2014: Linkages between Biology and the Water Supply Shutdown of Toledo, OH.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Effect of dissolved inorganic carbon on the expression of carboxysomes, localization of Rubisco and the mode of inorganic carbon transport in cells of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX 625

scientific article published in 1993

Effects of increasing nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations on phytoplankton community growth and toxicity during Planktothrix blooms in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie.

scientific article

Environmental Pseudomonads Inhibit Cystic Fibrosis Patient-Derived Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article

Environmental factors affecting chytrid (Chytridiomycota) infection rates on

scientific article

Evidence against fluvial seeding of recurrent toxic blooms of Microcystis spp. in Lake Erie's western basin

Expression of hcp in freshwater Synechococcus spp., a gene encoding a hyperconserved protein in picocyanobacteria.

scientific article published in June 2010

Expression of the iron-responsive irpA gene from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp strain PCC 7942

scientific article published on 14 November 2002

Freshwater ice as habitat: partitioning of phytoplankton and bacteria between ice and water in central European reservoirs.

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Genetic engineering of Caulobacter crescentus for removal of cadmium from water.

scientific article published on 12 February 2009

Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study.

scientific article

Ice cover extent drives phytoplankton and bacterial community structure in a large north-temperate lake: implications for a warming climate.

scientific article

Identification, enumeration and diversity of nitrifying planktonic archaea and bacteria in trophic end members of the Laurentian Great Lakes

scientific article

Immunocytochemical localization of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in light-limited and light-saturated cells ofChlorella pyrenoidosa

article by R. M. L. McKay & Sarah P. Gibbs published February 1989 in Protoplasma

Immunogold localization of photosystem I and photosystem II light-harvesting complexes in cryptomonad thylakoids

Insight Into the Molecular Mechanisms for Microcystin Biodegradation in Lake Erie and Lake Taihu

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Interactions between chytrids cause variable infection strategies on harmful algal bloom forming species

scientific article published in February 2023

Lake Superior supports novel clusters of cyanobacterial picoplankton

scientific article

Luminescent whole-cell cyanobacterial bioreporter for measuring Fe availability in diverse marine environments.

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Diel Metabolic Functions During a Microcystis Bloom in Western Lake Erie (United States)

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of Winter and Spring Planktonic Communities from Lake Erie, a Laurentian Great Lake

scientific article published in 2022

Nitrogen cycling in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie: oscillations between strong and weak export and implications for harmful algal blooms

scientific article

Phycoerythrin is absent from the pyrenoid of Porphyridium cruentum: photosynthetic implications

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Phylogenies of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria in the lower Laurentian Great Lakes suggest extensive genetic connectivity

scientific article

Physiological and biochemical response of freshwater cryptomonads (Cryptophyceae) to Fe deficiency

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Plasticity of Total and Intracellular Phosphorus Quotas in Microcystis aeruginosa Cultures and Lake Erie Algal Assemblages.

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Responses of the photosynthetic apparatus ofDunaliella tertiolecta(Chlorophyceae) to nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

Science meets policy: A framework for determining impairment designation criteria for large waterbodies affected by cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Seasonal Expression of the Picocyanobacterial Phosphonate Transporter Gene phnD in the Sargasso Sea

scientific article

Seasonal Si:C ratios in Lake Erie diatoms — Evidence of an active winter diatom community

Seasonal changes in microbial community structure and activity imply winter production is linked to summer hypoxia in a large lake.

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Self-immobilization of recombinant Caulobacter crescentus and its application in removal of cadmium from water.

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Sulfolipid substitution ratios of <scp><i>Microcystis aeruginosa</i></scp> and planktonic communities as an indicator of phosphorus limitation in Lake Erie

scientific article published in 2023

Taxonomic assessment of a toxic cyanobacteria shift in hypereutrophic Grand Lake St. Marys (Ohio, USA)

article by Morgan M. Steffen et al published March 2014 in Harmful Algae

The Changing Face of Winter: Lessons and Questions From the Laurentian Great Lakes

scientific article published in 2021

The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom

scientific article published in April 2004

Transitions in microbial communities along a 1600 km freshwater trophic gradient

scientific article

VERTICAL MIGRATION BY RHIZOSOLENIA SPP. (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR FE ACQUISITION

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Winter limnology on the Great Lakes: The role of the U.S. Coast Guard