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Overview

Shauna A. Murray is a researcher affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their work spans multiple fields within environmental and earth sciences, focusing predominantly on marine ecosystems and associated biological and chemical processes.

The main fields of study for this researcher include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these, their work covers several subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics are diverse and focus extensively on marine environments and microbial communities. Key topics include Marine Toxins and Detection Methods, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Fisheries Research, and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research.

Shauna A. Murray has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent venues where their work appears are Harmful Algae, Microorganisms, Scientific Reports, Phycologia, and Marine and Freshwater Research.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Revealing RNA virus diversity and evolution in unicellular algae transcriptomes" (2021) published in Virus Evolution
  • "Genomic copy number variability at the genus, species and population levels impacts in situ ecological analyses of dinoflagellates and harmful algal blooms" (2023) published in ISME Communications
  • "Morphological and phylogenetic data do not support the split of Alexandrium into four genera" (2020) published in Harmful Algae
  • "Impacts of harmful algal blooms on marine aquaculture in a low-carbon future" (2021) published in Harmful Algae
  • "Phenotypic trait variability as an indication of adaptive capacity in a cosmopolitan marine diatom" (2020) published in Environmental Microbiology

Collaboration is a notable element of their research career. Frequent co-authors include Penelope Ajani, Arjun Verma, Hazel Farrell, Mona Hoppenrath, and Kirsty F. Smith.

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • A modified ecological footprint method and its application to Australia

    Manfred Lenzen;Shauna A. Murray

  • Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics

    B T Grenfell;K Wilson;B F Finkenstadt;T N Coulson

  • Formal Revision of the Alexandrium tamarense Species Complex (Dinophyceae) Taxonomy: The Introduction of Five Species with Emphasis on Molecular-based (rDNA) Classification

    Uwe John;R. Wayne Litaker;Marina Montresor;Shauna Murray

  • Ocean sprawl: challenges and opportunities for biodiversity management in a changing world

    Louise B. Firth;Antony M. Knights;Daniel Bridger;Alison J. Evans

  • Discovery of Nuclear-Encoded Genes for the Neurotoxin Saxitoxin in Dinoflagellates

    Anke Stüken;Russell J. S. Orr;Ralf Kellmann;Shauna A. Murray

  • Environmental impact assessment including indirect effects—a case study using input–output analysis

    Manfred Lenzen;Shauna A. Murray;Britta Korte;Christopher J. Dey

  • Taxonomy and phylogeny of the benthic Prorocentrum species (Dinophyceae)—A proposal and review

    Mona Hoppenrath;Nicolas Chomérat;Takeo Horiguchi;Michael Schweikert

  • Marine benthic dinoflagellates - unveiling their worldwide biodiversity

    Mona Hoppenrath;Shauna A. Murray;Nicolas Chomérat;Takeo Horiguchi

  • Extraordinary Conservation, Gene Loss, and Positive Selection in the Evolution of an Ancient Neurotoxin

    Shauna A. Murray;Troco Kaan Mihali;Brett A. Neilan

  • Flagellates from stromatolites and surrounding sediments in Shark Bay, Western Australia

    S. Al-Qassab;WJ Lee;S. Murray;Alastair G. B. Simpson

  • sxtA-based quantitative molecular assay to identify saxitoxin-producing harmful algal blooms in marine waters.

    Shauna A. Murray;Maria Wiese;Anke Stüken;Steve Brett

  • Amphidinium revisited. I: Redefinition of Amphidinium (Dinophyceae) based on cladistic and molecular phylogenetic analyses

    Mårten Flø Jørgensen;Shauna Murray;Niels Daugbjerg

  • Joint acute toxicity of esfenvalerate and diazinon to larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas).

    Debra L. Denton;Craig E. Wheelock;Shauna A. Murray;Linda A. Deanovic

  • When naked became armored: an eight-gene phylogeny reveals monophyletic origin of theca in dinoflagellates.

    Russell Orr;Shauna A. Murray;Anke Stüken;Lesley Rhodes

  • Improving the analysis of dinoflagellate phylogeny based on rDNA.

    Shauna Murray;Mårten Flø Jørgensen;Simon Y.W. Ho;David J. Patterson;David J. Patterson

  • Genetic diversity, morphological uniformity and polyketide production in dinoflagellates (Amphidinium, Dinoflagellata).

    Shauna A. Murray;Tamsyn Garby;Mona Hoppenrath;Brett A. Neilan

  • Algae of Australia: Phytoplankton of Temperate Coastal Waters

    G. M. Hallegraeff;C. J. S. Bolch;D. R. A. Hill;I. Jameson

  • Evolutionary distinctiveness of fatty acid and polyketide synthesis in eukaryotes

    Gurjeet S Kohli;Uwe John;Frances M Van Dolah;Shauna A Murray

  • Evolution and Distribution of Saxitoxin Biosynthesis in Dinoflagellates

    Russell J. S. Orr;Anke Stüken;Shauna A. Murray;Kjetill S. Jakobsen

  • Evolutionary Acquisition and Loss of Saxitoxin Biosynthesis in Dinoflagellates: the Second “Core” Gene, sxtG

    Russell Orr;Anke Stüken;Shauna A. Murray;Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen

  • SPECIES BOUNDARIES IN THE TOXIC DINOFLAGELLATE PROROCENTRUM LIMA (DINOPHYCEAE, PROROCENTRALES), BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYLOGENETIC CHARACTERS(1).

    Yukio Nagahama;Shauna Murray;Akiko Tomaru;Yasuwo Fukuyo

  • High abundance of the potentially maitotoxic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus carpenteri in temperate waters of New South Wales, Australia.

    Gurjeet S. Kohli;Gurjeet S. Kohli;Shauna A. Murray;Brett A. Neilan;Lesley L. Rhodes

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff University of Tasmania
Brett A. Neilan
Brett A. Neilan University of Newcastle Australia
Uwe John
Uwe John Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
David J. Patterson
David J. Patterson University of Sydney
Kjetill S. Jakobsen
Kjetill S. Jakobsen University of Oslo
Martina A. Doblin
Martina A. Doblin University of Technology Sydney
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Miles Furnas
Miles Furnas Australian Institute of Marine Science
Michele A. Burford
Michele A. Burford Griffith University
Donald M. Anderson
Donald M. Anderson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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