Sun, M.-Y ., Carroll, M. L., Ambrose, Jr., W. G., Clough, L. M., Zou, L. and Lopez, G. R. 2007. Rapid consumption of phytoplankton and ice algae by Arctic soft-sediment benthic communities: Evidence using natural and 13 C-labeled food materials. Journal of Marine Research , (In press).
Dai, J. and Sun, M.-Y . 2007. Organic matter sources and their use by bacteria in the sediments of the Altamaha estuary during high and low discharge periods. Organic Geochemistry , 38 : 1-15.
Ding, H. and Sun, M.-Y . 2006. Differential fates of Emiliania huxleyi -derived fatty acids and alkenones in coastal marine sediments: Effect of benthic crustacean Palaemonetes pugio . Journal of Marine Research , 64 : 759-781.
Zou, L., Sun, M.-Y . and Guo, L. 2006. Temporal variations of organic carbon inputs into the upper Yukon River : Evidence from fatty acids and their stable carbon isotopic composition in dissolved, colloidal and particulate phases. Organic Geochemistry , 37 : 944-956.
McMahon, K. W., Ambrose Jr., W. G., Johnson, B. J., Sun, M.-Y .,
Lopez, G. R., Clough, L. M. and Carroll, M. L. 2006. Benthic
community response to ice algae and phytoplankton in Ny Ålesund,
Svalbard . Marine Ecology-Progress Series , 310 : 1-14.Sun, M.-Y. and J. Dai. 2005. Relative influences of bioturbation and physical mixing on degradation of bloom-derived organic matter: Evidence from chloropigments. Marine Chemistry, 96: 201-218.
Ding, H. and M.-Y. Sun. 2005. Biochemical degradation of algal fatty acids in oxic and anoxic sediment-seawater interface systems: effects of structural association and relative rols of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Marine Chemistry, 93: 1-19.
Ding, H. and M.-Y. Sun. 2005. Effects of intracellular structural associations on degradation of algal chloropigments in natural oxic and anoxic seawaters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69: 4237-4252.
Dai, J., M.-Y. Sun , R. A. Culp and J. E. Noakes. 2005. Changes in chemical and isotopic signatures of plant materials during degradation: Implication for assessing various organic inputs in estuarine systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L13608, doi:10.1029/2005GL023133.
Zou, L., X.-C. Wang, J. Callahan, R. A. Culp, R. F. Chen, M. A. Altabet and M.-Y. Sun. 2004. Bacterial roles in the formation of high molecular weight dissolved organic matter in estuarine and coastal waters: Evidence from lipids and the compound-specific isotopic ratios. Limnology and Oceanograph, 49: 297-302.
Sun, M.-Y ., Zou, L., Dai, J., Ding, H., Culp, R. A. and Scranton, M. I. 2004. Molecular carbon isotopic fractionation of algal lipids during decomposition in natural oxic and anoxic seawaters. Organic Geochemistry, 35: 895-908.
Sun, M.-Y., R. C. Aller, C. Lee, and S. G. Wakeham. 2002. Effects of oxygen and redox oscillation on degradation of cell-associated lipids in surficial marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66: 2003-2012.
Sun, M.-Y., W.-J. Cai, S. B. Joye, H. Ding, J. Dai, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2002. Degradation of algal lipids in microcosm sediments with different mixing regimes. Organic
Geochemistry, 33: 445-459.
Shi, W., M.-Y. Sun, M. Molina, and R. E. Hodson. 2001. Variability in the distribution of lipid biomarkers and their molecular isotopic composition in Altamaha estuarine sediments: implications for the relative contribution of organic matter from various sources. Organic Geochemistry, 32: 453-467.
Sun, M.-Y. 2000. Mass spectrometric characterization of 13 C-labeled lipid tracers and their degradation products in microcosm sediments. Organic Geochemistry, 31: 199-209.
Sun, M.-Y., W. Shi, and R. F. Lee. 2000. Lipid-degrading enzyme activities with distribution and degradation of fatty acids in the mixing zone of Altamaha estuarine sediments. Organic Geochemistry, 31: 889-902.
