Surface mining of enormous oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta, Canada since 1967
has contributed greatly to Canada's economy but has also received negative international …

Illumina sequencing is a representative tool for understanding the massive diversity of
microbial eukaryotes in natural ecosystems. Here, we investigated the eukaryotic community …

Primary succession in mine tailings is a prerequisite for tailing vegetation. Microorganisms,
including bacteria, fungi, and protists, play an important role in this process in the driving …

The oil sands in Northern Alberta are the largest oil sands in the world, providing an
important economic resource for the Canadian energy industry. The extraction of petroleum …

Understanding how biodiversity changes in time and space is vital to assess the effects of
environmental change on benthic ecosystems. Due to the limitations of morphological …

Oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), produced by surface-mining of oil sands in
Canada, is alkaline and contains high concentrations of salts, metals, naphthenic acids, and …

Natural attenuation, involving microbial adaptation, helps mitigating the effect of oil
contamination of surface soils. We hypothesized that in soils under fluctuating conditions …

Naphthenic acids (NAs) are a complex mixture of carboxylic acids present in oil sands
process water (OSPW). Their recalcitrant nature makes them difficult to be removed from the …

There has been a rising interest in the levels, diversity and potential impacts of yeasts in
aquatic environments. Some of the species isolated from such niches are known pathogens …

Copper-containing membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs) are encoded by xmoCAB (D)
gene clusters and catalyze the oxidation of methane, ammonia, or some short-chain alkanes …