Jonkers, L, Strack, T, Alonso-Garcia, M, D'haenens, S, Huber, R, Kucera, M, Hernández-Almeida, I, Jones, CLC, Metcalfe, B, Saraswat, R, Silye, L, Verma, SK, Abd Malek, MN, Auer, G, Barbosa, CF, Barcena, MA, Baumann, KH, Boscolo-Galazzo, F, Calvelo, JAS, Capotondi, L, Caratelli, M, Cardich, J, Carvajal-Chitty, H, Chroustová, M, Coxall, HK, de Mello, RM, de Vernal, A, Diz, P, Edgar, KM, Filipsson, HL, Fraguas, Á, Furlong, HL, Galli, G, García Chapori, NL, Granger, R, Groeneveld, J, Imam, A, Jackson, R, Lazarus, D, Meilland, J, Molčan Matejová, M, Morard, R, Morigi, C, Nielsen, SN, Ochoa, D, Petrizzo, MR, Rigual-Hernández, AS, Rillo, MC, Staitis, ML, Tanık, G, Tapia, R, Vats, N, Wade, BS and Weinmann, AE (2025) Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 44(1). 145-168. doi:10.5194/jm-44-145-2025
Gusmao, ACB, van Dijk, RL, Girard, EB, Peijnenburg, KTCA, Macher, J, Kucera, M and Morard, R (2025) Exploring the potential of the COI gene marker for DNA barcoding of planktonic foraminifera. Scientific Reports, 15(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-03842-7
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