Publications

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2018

*Sleight, Victoria A., Peck, Lloyd S., Dyrynda, Elisabeth A., Smith, Valerie J., Clark, Melody S.. (2018) Cellular stress responses to chronic heat shock and shell damage in temperate Mya truncata. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 23. 1003-1017. 10.1007/s12192-018-0910-5

2017

*Sleight, Victoria A. (2017) The molluscan shell secretome: unlocking calcium pathways in a changing world. Heriot Watt University, PhD thesis
*Sleight, Victoria A., Bakir, Adil, Thompson, Richard C., Henry, Theodore B.. (2017) Assessment of microplastic-sorbed contaminant bioavailability through analysis of biomarker gene expression in larval zebrafish. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 116. 291-297. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.12.055
Arivalagan, Jaison, Yarra, Tejaswi, Marie, Benjamin, Sleight, Victoria A., Duvernois-Berthet, Evelyne, Clark, Melody S., Marie, Arul, Berland, Sophie. (2017) Insights from the shell proteome: biomineralization to adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34. 66-77. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw219

2016

*Sleight, Victoria A., Marie, Benjamin, Jackson, Daniel J., Dyrynda, Elizabeth A., Marie, Arul, Clark, Melody S.. (2016) An Antarctic molluscan biomineralisation tool-kit. Scientific Reports, 6. 13 pp. 10.1038/srep36978
Arivalagan, Jaison, Marie, Benjamin, Sleight, Victoria A., Clark, Melody S., Berland, Sophie, Marie, Arul. (2016) Shell matrix proteins of the clam, Mya truncata: Roles beyond shell formation through proteomic study. Marine Genomics, 27. 69-74. doi:10.1016/j.margen.2016.03.005
*Sleight, Victoria A., Thorne, Michael A.S., Peck, Lloyd S., Arivalagan, Jaison, Berland, Sophie, Marie, Arul, Clark, Melody S.. (2016) Characterisation of the mantle transcriptome and biomineralisation genes in the blunt-gaper clam, Mya truncata. Marine Genomics, 27. 47-55. doi:10.1016/j.margen.2016.01.003

2015

*Sleight, Victoria A., Thorne, Michael, Peck, Lloyd, Clark, Melody. (2015) Transcriptomic response to shell damage in the Antarctic clam, Laternula elliptica: time scales and spatial localisation. Marine Genomics, 20. 45-55. 10.1016/j.margen.2015.01.009
Sleight, Victoria A. (2015) Educating scientists with Plymouth University. The Plymouth Student Scientist, 8. 1-3.

2014 

 

Woodall, L. C., Sanchez-Vidal A. , Canals M. , Paterson G. L. J., Coppock R. , Sleight V. A., Calafat A., Rogers A. D. , Narayanaswamy B. E. and Thompson R. C. (2014). The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris. Royal Society Open Science. 1, 4. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140317

2013 

 

Readman J. W. et al., (including Sleight V. A.) (2013). Contaminants, Pollution and Potential Anthropogenic Impacts in Chagos/BIOT. Coral Reefs of the World. 4, 283–98. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5965-7_21

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