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List of works by Kenneth Neil Mertens

A morphological comparison of two cladopyxidacean dinoflagellates: the extant Micracanthodinium setiferum and the fossil Cladopyxidium saeptum (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales)

A new heterotrophic dinoflagellate from the North-eastern Pacific, Protoperidinium fukuyoi: cyst-theca relationship, phylogeny, distribution and ecology

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A new potentially toxic dinoflagellate Fukuyoa koreansis sp. nov. (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) from Korean coastal waters: Morphology, phylogeny, and effects of temperature and salinity on growth

scientific article published in November 2021

A review of recent freshwater dinoflagellate cysts: taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeocology

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Adding new pieces to the Azadinium (Dinophyceae) diversity and biogeography puzzle: Non-toxigenic Azadinium zhuanum sp. nov. from China, toxigenic A. poporum from the Mediterranean, and a non-toxigenic A. dalianense from the French Atlantic

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An unprecedented bloom of Lingulodinium polyedra on the French Atlantic coast during summer 2021

Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: A new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex

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Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distributions in the Black Sea Corridor: from Aegean to Aral Seas, including Marmara, Black, Azov and Caspian Seas

Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared (Micro-FT-IR) Spectroscopy to Enhance Repeatability and Reproducibility of Spectra Derived from Single Specimen Organic-Walled Dinoflagellate Cysts

Attributing Ceratocorys, Pentaplacodinium and Protoceratium to Protoceratiaceae (Dinophyceae), with descriptions of Ceratocorys malayensis sp. nov. and Pentaplacodinium usupianum sp. nov.

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Caspian Sea levels over the last 2200 years, with new data from the S-E corner

Centrodinium punctatum (Dinophyceae) produces significant levels of saxitoxin and related analogs

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Corrigendum to “Taxonomic re-examination of the toxic armoured dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906: Can morphology or LSU sequencing separate P. bahamense var. compressum from var. bahamense?” [Harmful Algae 41 (2015) 1–24]

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Cryptic speciation in Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae): Evidence from morphological, molecular and ecophysiological data

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Cyst-Theca Relationship and Phylogenetic Position of Impagidinium caspienense Incubated from Caspian Sea Surface Sediments: Relation to Gonyaulax baltica and Evidence for Heterospory within Gonyaulacoid Dinoflagellates.

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Cyst-motile stage relationship, morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the gymnodinioid dinoflagellate Barrufeta resplendens comb. nov., formerly known as Gyrodinium resplendens, isolated from the Gulf of Mexico.

scientific article published on 13 September 2015

Cyst-theca relationship and phylogenetic positions of Scrippsiella plana sp. nov. and S. spinifera (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

Cyst-theca relationship of a new dinoflagellate with a spiny round brown cyst,Protoperidinium lewisiaesp. nov., and its comparison to the cyst ofOblea acanthocysta

scientific article published in April 2015

Cyst-theca relationships and phylogenetic positions of Peridiniales (Dinophyceae) with two anterior intercalary plates, with description ofArchaeperidinium bailongensesp. nov. andProtoperidinium fuzhouensesp. nov

scientific article published in April 2015

Cyst-theca relationships of Spiniferites bentorii, S. hyperacanthus, S. ramosus, S. scabratus and molecular phylogenetics of Spiniferites and Tectatodinium (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae)

scientific article published on 4 July 2021

Cyst–theca relationship and phylogenetic positions of Protoperidinium (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) species of the sections Conica and Tabulata, with description of Protoperidinium shanghaiense sp. nov.

Cyst–theca relationship and phylogenetic positions of the diplopsalioideans (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with description of Niea and Qia gen. nov.

Description and phylogenetic position of Plagiolemma distortum sp. nov., a new raphid diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from French coastal waters

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments II: Further tests of the Lycopodium marker-grain method

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Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: The Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

Differences in the chemical composition of organic-walled dinoflagellate resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates.

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Dinoflagellate fossils: Geological and biological applications

scientific article published in December 2018

Does dinocyst wall composition really reflect trophic affinity? New evidence from <scp>ATR micro‐FTIR</scp> spectroscopy measurements

scientific article published in 2023

Evaluation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distributions in coastal surface sediments of the China Seas in relation with hydrographic conditions for paleoceanographic reconstruction

Fensomea setacea, gen. & sp. nov. (Cladopyxidaceae, Dinophyceae), is neither gonyaulacoid nor peridinioid as inferred from morphological and molecular data

scholarly article published in 2021

First record of resting cysts of the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum leve in a natural reservoir in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France.

scientific article published on 02 September 2017

First report of fossilized cysts produced by the benthic Bysmatrum subsalsum (Dinophyceae) from a shallow Mexican lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gonyaulacalean tabulation revisited using plate homology and plate overlap, with emphasis on the ventral area (Dinophyceae)

Gonyaulax geomunensis sp. nov . and two allied species (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) from Korean coastal waters and East China Sea: morphology, phylogeny and growth response to changes in temperature and salinity

scientific article published on 15 December 2022

Hiddenocysta matsuokae gen. et sp. nov. from the Holocene of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

High-resolution reconstructions of Holocene sea-surface conditions from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the northern South China Sea

Huia caspicagen. & comb. nov., a dinoflagellate species that recently crossed the marine-freshwater boundary

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Lower and Middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin

scholarly article

Islandinium pacificum sp. nov., a new dinoflagellate cyst from the upper Quaternary of the northeast Pacific

scientific article published in February 2019

Late Quaternary climatic and oceanographic changes in the Northeast Pacific as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico)

Monitoring the Emergence of Algal Toxins in Shellfish: First Report on Detection of Brevetoxins in French Mediterranean Mussels

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

Morpho-molecular analysis of podolampadacean dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae), with the description of two new genera

Morpho-molecular and spectroscopic characterization of the freshwater dinoflagellate Unruhdinium penardii var. robustum (Kryptoperidiniaceae, Peridiniales), blooming in the Loir River, France

scientific article published in 2021

Morpho-molecular diversity and phylogeny of Bysmatrum (Dinophyceae) from the South China Sea and France

Morphological and phylogenetic data do not support the split of Alexandrium into four genera

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Morphology, molecular phylogeny and azaspiracid profile of Azadinium poporum (Dinophyceae) from the Gulf of Mexico

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Johsia chumphonensis gen. et sp. nov. and Parvodinium parvulum comb. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae)

scholarly article published in 2020

Morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of cyst-producing Caladoa arcachonensis gen. et sp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) from France and Indonesia

scholarly article by Zhaohe Luo et al published 11 March 2019 in European Journal of Phycology

Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of Wangodinium sinense gen. et sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) and revisiting of Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum and Gymnodinium impudicum

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

New acritarchs from the late Cenozoic of the southern North Sea Basin and the North Atlantic realm

scientific article published on 2 January 2014

New dinoflagellate speciesProtoperidinium haizhouensesp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), its cyst-theca relationship and phylogenetic position within theMonovelagroup

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Pentaplacodinium lapazense sp. nov. from Central and Southern Gulf of California, a new non-toxic gonyaulacalean resembling Protoceratium reticulatum

Pentaplacodinium saltonense gen. et sp. nov. (Dinophyceae) and its relationship to the cyst-defined genus Operculodinium and yessotoxin-producing Protoceratium reticulatum.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: Investigating its potential as salinity proxy

Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellateProtoceratium reticulatumin the North Pacific and Baltic-Skagerrak region: calibration as an annual density proxy and first evidence of pseudo-cryptic speciation

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Prorocentrum shikokuense Hada and P. donghaiense Lu are junior synonyms of P. obtusidens Schiller, but not of P. dentatum Stein (Prorocentrales, Dinophyceae)

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Quantitative estimation of Holocene surface salinity variation in the Black Sea using dinoflagellate cyst process length

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Reclassification ofGonyaulax verior(Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) asSourniaea diacantha gen. et comb. nov.

Reconstructing marine productivity of the Cariaco Basin during marine isotope stages 3 and 4 using organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

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Relationship between the dinoflagellate cyst Spiniferites pachydermus and Gonyaulax ellegaardiae sp. nov. from Izmir Bay, Turkey, and molecular characterization.

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Reply to: Comments on Mertens et al. (2022): the taxonomic identity of Micracanthodinium setiferum (Lohmann) Deflandre (Dinophyceae incertae sedis ) remains elusive, and its epitypification is not achieved

Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

Sediment archives reveal irreversible shifts in plankton communities after World War II and agricultural pollution

Some new acritarch species from the lower and middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin, North Atlantic Ocean: biostratigraphy and palaeoecology

Statistically assessing the correlation between salinity and morphology in cysts produced by the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum from surface sediments of the North Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean–Marmara–Black Sea region, and Baltic–Kat

scientific article published in 2014

Taxonomic Re-Investigation and Geochemical Characterization of Reid’s (1974) Species of Spiniferites from Holotype and Topotype Material

Taxonomic re-examination of the toxic armored dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906: Can morphology or LSU sequencing separate P. bahamense var. compressum from var. bahamense?

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Taxonomic revision of Spiniferites elongatus (the resting stage of Gonyaulax elongata) based on morphological and molecular analyses

Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, and cyst wall composition of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Votadinium Reid (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales, Protoperidiniaceae)

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with Consideration of their Life-history

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

The affiliation of Hexasterias problematica and Halodinium verrucatum sp. nov. to ciliate cysts based on molecular phylogeny and cyst wall composition

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

The ciliophoran affinity of Radiosperma textum, and its relation to other marine ciliate cysts

The cyst-theca relationship of the dinoflagellate cyst Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum, with erection of Protoperidinium lousianensis sp. nov. and their phylogenetic position within the Conica group

scholarly article by Kenneth Neil Mertens et al published 4 April 2016 in Palynology

The dinoflagellate cyst genera Achomosphaera Evitt 1963 and Spiniferites Mantell 1850 in Pliocene to modern sediments: a summary of round table discussions

article by Kenneth Neil Mertens et al published 14 December 2018 in Palynology

The geographical distribution and (palaeo)ecology of Selenopemphix undulata sp. nov., a new late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst from the Pacific Ocean

The molecular characterization of the enigmatic dinoflagellateKolkwitziella acutareveals an affinity to theExcentricasection of the genusProtoperidinium

scientific article published in 2015

Transferring the freshwater dinoflagellatePeridinium wisconsinense(Dinophyceae) to the family Thoracosphaeraceae, with the description ofFusiperidiniumgen. nov.

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Unraveling the Gonyaulax baltica Species Complex: Cyst–theca Relationship of Impagidinium variaseptum , Spiniferites pseudodelicatus sp. nov. and S. ristingensis (Gonyaulacaceae, Dinophyceae), With Descriptions of Gonyaulax bohaiensis sp. nov, G. a

When phytoplankton do not bloom: the case of the dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum in southern Brittany (France) assessed by environmental DNA