Morard, R, Darling, KF, Weiner, AKM, Hassenrück, C, Vanni, C, Cordier, T, Henry, N, Greco, M, Vollmar, NM, Milivojević, T, Rahman, SN, Siccha, M, Meilland, J, Jonkers, L, Quillévéré, F, Escarguel, G, Douady, CJ, de Garidel‐Thoron, T, de Vargas, C and Kucera, M (2024) The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton. Biological Reviews. doi:10.1111/brv.13065
Pinko, D, Abramovich, S, Rahav, E, Belkin, N, Rubin-Blum, M, Kucera, M, Morard, R, Holzmann, M and Abdu, U (2023) Shared ancestry of algal symbiosis and chloroplast sequestration in foraminifera. Science Advances, 9(41). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi3401
Siccha, M, Morard, R, Meilland, J, Iwasaki, S, Kucera, M and Kimoto, K (2023) Collection of X-ray micro computed tomography images of shells of planktic foraminifera with curated taxonomy. Scientific Data, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02498-0
Raposo, DS, Zufall, RA, Caruso, A, Titelboim, D, Abramovich, S, Hassenrück, C, Kucera, M and Morard, R (2023) Invasion success of a Lessepsian symbiont-bearing foraminifera linked to high dispersal ability, preadaptation and suppression of sexual reproduction. Scientific Reports, 13(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39652-y
Greco, M, Morard, R, Darling, K and Kucera, M (2023) Macroevolutionary patterns in intragenomic rDNA variability among planktonic foraminifera. PeerJ, 11. e15255. doi:10.7717/peerj.15255
Morard, R, Weinkauf, MFG, Brombacher, A, Fenton, I, Fehrenbacher, J and Rillo, MC (2022) Editorial: Protists as model ecological and evolutionary study systems: Emerging methodologies of the 21st century. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.1014238
Meilland, J, Cornuault, P, Morard, R, Brummer, GJA and Kucera, M (2022) Identification guide to extant planktonic foraminifera. Part 1: Family Candeinidae and genera Berggrenia, Bolivina, Dentigloborotalia, and Neogallitellia. ICES Idendtification Leaflets for Plankton(196). doi:10.17895/ices.pub.7643
Holzmann, M, Hohenegger, J, Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, L, Morard, R, Abramovich, S, Titelboim, D and Pawlowski, J (2022) Operculina and Neoassilina: a revision of recent nummulitid genera based on molecular and morphological data reveals a new genus. Journal of Earth Science. doi:10.1007/s12583-021-1595-8
Cordier, T, Angeles, IB, Henry, N, Lejzerowicz, F, Berney, C, Morard, R, Brandt, A, Cambon-Bonavita, MA, Guidi, L, Lombard, F, Arbizu, PM, Massana, R, Orejas, C, Poulain, J, Smith, CR, Wincker, P, Arnaud-Haond, S, Gooday, AJ, de Vargas, C and Pawlowski, J (2022) Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment. Science Advances, 8(5). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj9309
Meilland, J, Ezat, MM, Westgård, A, Manno, C, Morard, R, Siccha, M and Kucera, M (2022) Rare but persistent asexual reproduction explains the success of planktonic foraminifera in polar oceans. Journal of Plankton Research, 45(1). 15-32. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbac069
Morard, R, Hassenrück, C, Greco, M, Fernandez-Guerra, A, Rigaud, S, Douady, CJ and Kucera, M (2022) Renewal of planktonic foraminifera diversity after the Cretaceous Paleogene mass extinction by benthic colonizers. Nature Communications, 13(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34794-5
Milivojević, T, Rahman, SN, Raposo, D, Siccha, M, Kucera, M and Morard, R (2021) High variability in SSU rDNA gene copy number among planktonic foraminifera revealed by single-cell qPCR. ISME Communications, 1(1). doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00067-3
Greco, M, Morard, R, Kucera, M and Dolan, J (2021) Single-cell metabarcoding reveals biotic interactions of the Arctic calcifier Neogloboquadrina pachyderma with the eukaryotic pelagic community. Journal of Plankton Research, 43(2). 113-125. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbab015
Titelboim, D, Thangarjan, S, Raposo, D, Morard, R, Kucera, M, Ashckenazi‐Polivoda, S, Almogi‐Labin, A, Herut, B, Manda, S, Abramovich, S, Gold, DA and Abdu, U (2021) The transcriptomic signature of cold and heat stress in benthic foraminifera—Implications for range expansions of marine calcifiers. Functional Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13929
Prazeres, M, Morard, R, Roberts, TE, Doo, SS, Jompa, J, Schmidt, C, Stuhr, M, Renema, W and Kucera, M (2020) High dispersal capacity and biogeographic breaks shape the genetic diversity of a globally distributed reef‐dwelling calcifier. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.6335
Morard, R, Füllberg, A, Brummer, GJA, Greco, M, Jonkers, L, Wizemann, A, Weiner, AKM, Darling, K, Siccha, M, Ledevin, R, Kitazato, H, de Garidel-Thoron, T, de Vargas, C and Kucera, M (2019) Genetic and morphological divergence in the warm-water planktonic foraminifera genus Globigerinoides. PLOS ONE, 14(12). e0225246. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225246
Meilland, J, Siccha, M, Weinkauf, MFG, Jonkers, L, Morard, R, Baranowski, U, Baumeister, A, Bertlich, J, Brummer, GJA, Debray, P, Fritz-Endres, T, Groeneveld, J, Magerl, L, Munz, P, Rillo, MC, Schmidt, C, Takagi, H, Theara, G and Kucera, M (2019) Highly replicated sampling reveals no diurnal vertical migration but stable species-specific vertical habitats in planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Plankton Research, 41(2). 127-141. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbz002
Schmidt, C, Morard, R, Romero, OE and Kucera, M (2018) Diverse internal symbiont community in the endosymbiotic foraminifera Pararotalia calcariformata: implications for symbiont shuffling under thermal stress. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02018
Morard, R, Escarguel, G, Weiner, AKM, André, A, Douady, CJ, Wade, CM, Darling, KF, Ujiié, Y, Seears, HA, Quillévéré, F, de Garidel-Thoron, T, de Vargas, C and Kucera, M (2016) Nomenclature for the nameless: a proposal for an integrative molecular taxonomy of cryptic diversity exemplified by planktonic foraminifera. Systematic Biology, 65(5). 925-940. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw031
Schmidt, C, Morard, R, Prazeres, M, Barak, H and Kucera, M (2016) Retention of high thermal tolerance in the invasive foraminifera Amphistegina lobifera from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf of Aqaba. Marine Biology, 163(11). 228. doi:10.1007/s00227-016-2998-4
Morard, R, Reinelt, M, Chiessi, CM, Groeneveld, J and Kucera, M (2016) Tracing shifts of oceanic fronts using the cryptic diversity of the planktonic foraminiferaGloborotalia inflata. Paleoceanography, 31(9). 1193-1205. doi:10.1002/2016PA002977
de Vargas, C, Audic, S, Henry, N, Decelle, J, Mahe, F, Logares, R, Lara, E, Berney, C, Le Bescot, N, Probert, I, Carmichael, M, Poulain, J, Romac, S, Colin, S, Aury, JM, Bittner, L, Chaffron, S, Dunthorn, M, Engelen, S, Flegontova, O, Guidi, L, Horak, A, Jaillon, O, Lima-Mendez, G, Luke , J, Malviya, S, Morard, R, Mulot, M, Scalco, E, Siano, R, Vincent, F, Zingone, A, Dimier, C, Picheral, M, Searson, S, Kandels-Lewis, S, Acinas, SG, Bork, P, Bowler, C, Gorsky, G, Grimsley, N, Hingamp, P, Iudicone, D, Not, F, Ogata, H, Pesant, S, Raes, J, Sieracki, ME, Speich, S, Stemmann, L, Sunagawa, S, Weissenbach, J, Wincker, P, Karsenti, E, Boss, E, Follows, M, Karp-Boss, L, Krzic, U, Reynaud, EG, Sardet, C, Sullivan, MB and Velayoudon, D (2015) Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean. Science, 348(6237). 1261605. doi:10.1126/science.1261605
Spezzaferri, S, Kucera, M, Pearson, PN, Wade, BS, Rappo, S, Poole, CR, Morard, R and Stalder, C (2015) Fossil and genetic evidence for the polyphyletic nature of the planktonic foraminifera "Globigerinoides", and description of the new genus Trilobatus. PLOS ONE, 10(5). e0128108. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128108
Morard, R, Darling, KF, Mahé, F, Audic, S, Ujiié, Y, Weiner, AKM, André, A, Seears, HA, Wade, CM, Quillévéré, F, Douady, CJ, Escarguel, G, de Garidel-Thoron, T, Siccha, M, Kucera, M and de Vargas, C (2015) PFR2: a curated database of planktonic foraminifera 18S ribosomal DNA as a resource for studies of plankton ecology, biogeography and evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(6). 1472-1485. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12410
Schmidt, C, Morard, R, Almogi-Labin, A, Weinmann, AE, Titelboim, D, Abramovich, S and Kucera, M (2015) Recent invasion of the symbiont-bearing foraminifera Pararotalia into the eastern Mediterranean facilitated by the ongoing warming trend. PLOS ONE, 10(8). e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917
André, A, Weiner, A, Quillévéré, F, Aurahs, R, Morard, R, Douady, CJ, de Garidel-Thoron, T, Escarguel, G, de Vargas, C and Kucera, M (2013) The cryptic and the apparent reversed: lack of genetic differentiation within the morphologically diverse plexus of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer. Paleobiology, 39. 21-39. doi:10.1666/0094-8373-39.1.21