2023

Gunawardana, D. (2023) “Serial Guesstimates, Cereal Grasses, Statistical Guidance and Surreal Genetics”. Sri Lankan Journal of Biology 8(2) 1-3.

Aberathne, N. Wedage M., Gunawardana D. (2023) Molecular Mimicry of nodA genes by an N-acteyl-Muramoyl-L-Alanine Amidase gene in a likely nodule forming Staphylococcus cohni: Is there more to the Nod factor story?  [Accepted for Publication in Scopus/Web of Science indexed journal]

Gunawardana, D., Wanigatunga, R. Wewlawela, J., Vithanage, M. and Wijeyaratne, C. (2023) Sulfur is in the Air: Cyanolichen Marriages and Pollution 2023 Acta Biotheorotica. May 6;71(3):14. doi: 10.1007/s10441-023-09465-7. PMID: 37148405 [Impact Factor of 1.185]

Gunawardana, D.; Abeysiri, S.; Manage, P. (2023) Legacy of “New Normal” Plastics and “New Nitrogen” in the Cyanotoxin Footprint in Mangrove Ecosystems. Phycology 3, 106-126. https://doi.org/10.3390/phycology301000

Pushpakumara, B.L.D.U., Gunawardana D. (2023) Fischerella uthpalarensis, a vanadium-driven Subsection V cyanobiont from a tropical Azolla sp. [Under Review]

2022

Gunawardana, D. (2022) Genetic, Structural, Physicochemical, and Molecular Epidemiological Landscape of Three New Mutations Found in the Spike (S) Protein of Highly Transmissible Sri Lankan Delta Variant Sub-lineage AY.28: A222V, A701S, and A1078S. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Volume 2022 | Article ID 4364131 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4364131 [Impact Factor of 2.791]

Gunawardana, D., and Herath, V. (2022). A Hypothesis on How the Azolla Symbiosis Mitigates Nitrous Oxide Based on In Silico Analyses. J 5, no. 1: 166-185. https://doi.org/10.3390/j5010013

Weralupitiya C, Wanigatunge RP, Gunawardana D., Vithanage M, Magana-Arachchi D. Cyanotoxins uptake and accumulation in crops: Phytotoxicity and implications on human health. Toxicon. 2022 Mar 11:S0041-0101(22)00068-X. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2022.03.003. [Impact Factor 3.033]

Yamasinghe, UR and Gunawardana, D. (2022) Isolation and characterization of putative nitrogen-fixing endophytes from three distinct wild rice species in Sri Lanka. (Accepted for Publication), Current Scientia.

2021

Gunawardana, D. (2021)  Divergence of plastid 2-oxoglutarate “only” transporters away from general transporters by using a cysteine-rich architecture. Sri Lankan J. Biol. 2021, 6 (2): 20-31. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljb.v6i2.81

Gunawardana, D, (2021). Water: panacea, pearl and problem child. Sri Lankan Journal of Biology, 6 (1), pp.1–2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljb.v6i1.68

2020

Gunawardana, D.  (2020) An in silico Study of Two Transcription Factors Controlling Diazotrophic Fates of the Azolla Major Cyanobiont Trichormus azollae. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights. doi:10.1177/1177932220977490

Perera, G.R., Gunawardana, D., Jayatissa R., Silva, B.G. (2020) Estimation of Iron Content and Its Contribution in Iron-Fortified Food Products Consumed by School Children in Sri Lanka,” Journal of Food Quality, vol. 2020, Article ID 6079379, 8 pages, 2020.https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6079379. [impact factor 1.36]

2019

Gunawardana, D. (2019) An Exploration of Common Greenhouse Gas Emissions by the Cyanobiont of the Azolla–Nostoc Symbiosis and Clues as to Nod Factors in Cyanobacteria. Plants, 8, 587. [Impact factor 2.76] DOI: 10.3390/plants8120587 

Perera R., Gunawardana D., Jayatissa R., Silva B.G. (2019) Iron content of some popular cooked foods consumed by the rural school children in Sri Lanka (Accepted for publication – Journal of Food Quality) [impact factor 1.36]

Wedage, W. M. M., Aberathne, N., Harischandra, I.N., Gunawardana D. (2019) Sub1, a nodulation-proficient Non-Rhizobial inhabitant of Pueraria phaseoloides. The Scientific World Journal (https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9782684) [Scopus Indexed]

2018

Pushpakumara, B.L.D.U, Gunawardana, D. (2018) Preliminary data on the presence of an alternate vanadium nitrogenase in a culturable cyanobiont of Azolla pinnata: Implications on CKDu. Data in Brief, 21, pp.2590-2597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.073 [Impact factor – 0.97]

Atugoda D.R.A.M.T.R, Mandakini L.L.U, Bandara N.J.G.J., Gunawardana, D. (2018) How a taxonomically-ambiguous cyanobiont and vanadate assist in the phytoremediation of cadmium by Azolla pinnata: implications for CKDu. Environment and Pollution 7(1) 53-65.

2016

Domashevskiy, A.V., Rodriguez D.J., Gunawardana, D., Goss, D.J (2016) Preparation of Functional, Fluorescently Labeled mRNA Capped with Anthraniloyl-m7GpppG. in “Synthetic mRNA: Production, Introduction Into Cells, and Physiological Consequences”. Methods in Molecular Biology, 61-75 (chapter 4).  

Gunawardana, D. (2016) PDZ binding domains, Structural Disorder and Phosphorylation – A menage-a-trois tailing Dcp2 mRNA decapping enzymes. Protein and Peptide Letters 23(999). DOI: 10.2174/0929866523666160506151720 (IF – 1.156)

Mandakini, L.L.U, Bandara, N.J.G.J., Gunawardana D. (2016) A study on the phytoremediation potential of Azolla pinnata under laboratory conditions. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment 6(1): 36-49.

2015

Gunawardana, D., Domashevskey, A.V., Gayler, K.R., Goss, D.J. (2015) Efficient preparation and properties of mRNAs containing a fluorescent cap analog Anthraniloyl-m7-GpppG. Translation 3:1 e988538 [Citations – 5] (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4682804/)

2009

Gunawardana, D., Likic, V.A., Gayler, K.R. (2009) Comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of the Nudix superfamily in Arabidopsis thaliana. Comparative and Functional Genomics 820381 (IF– 2.03); [citations – 21]

2008

Gunawardana, D., Cheng, H.C., Gayler, K.R. (2008) Functional domains of the Arabidopsis thaliana mRNA decapping enzyme Nucleic Acids Research 36(1) 203-216 [Impact Factor  – 11.14]; [citations – 27] (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248764/)

Sheehy, J., Gunawardana, D., Danila, F., Tan, K..G., Ferrer, A.B., Mitchell, P.L. (2008) Systems biology or the biology of systems: routes to reducing hunger. New Phytologist 179(3) 579-582 (Impact Factor – 8.512); [citations – 11]

2005

Swarbrick, J. D., Buyya, S., Gunawardana, D., Gayler, K. R., McLennan, A. G., Gooley, P. R. (2005) Structure and substrate-binding mechanism of human Ap₄A hydrolase. J Biol Chem 280(9): 8471-81 (IF – 4.238); [citations – 33] (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15596429)

Swarbrick, J. D., Buyya, S., Gunawardana, D., Fletcher, J. I., Branson, K., Smith, B., Pepe, S., McLennan, A. G., Gayler, K. R., Gooley, P. R. (2005) H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignments of the 17 kDa Ap₄A hydrolase from Homo sapiens in the presence and absence of ATP. J Biomol NMR 31(2): 181-182. (IF –2. 534) [Citations – 1]

2002

Gunwardana, D., Buyya, S. Peisley, A., Fletcher, J. Maksel, D. Mclennan, A.G., Gooley, P.R., Galyer, K.R (2002) Mutagenesis studies on the NUDT hydrolase Ap4A hydrolase. Drug Development Research 56 (4), 568-568 [IF – 1.92]