Kenneth Neil Mertens
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Recent Articles
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Huang S, Neil Mertens K, Nguyen-Ngoc L, Doan-Nhu H, Krock B, Li Z, et al.
J Phycol
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40063417
The fossil dinoflagellates Spiniferites bentorii, S. mirabilis, and S. membranaceus are known to inhabit recent sediments and are often used to reconstruct past sea-surface conditions. However, information on their corresponding...
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Gorse L, Plessis L, Wearne S, Paradis M, Pinilla M, Chua R, et al.
EMBO Mol Med
. 2025 Feb;
17(3):535-562.
PMID: 39948420
In 2020-2021, a "mysterious illness" struck Senegalese fishermen, causing severe acute dermatitis in over one thousand individuals following exposure through drift-net fishing activity. Here, by performing deep analysis of the...
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Huang S, Neil Mertens K, Derrien A, David O, Shin H, Li Z, et al.
Harmful Algae
. 2024 Dec;
141:102761.
PMID: 39645391
Yessotoxin is one of the shellfish toxins leading to mussel farm closures in the Adriatic Sea of Italy. Two putative Gonyaulax spinifera strains GSA0501 and GSA0602 are known as yessotoxins...
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Biessy L, Pearman J, Neil Mertens K, Reveillon D, Savar V, Hess P, et al.
Toxicon
. 2024 Apr;
243:107721.
PMID: 38636612
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin causing human intoxications from contaminated seafood worldwide and is of emerging concern in Europe. Shellfish have been shown to contain varying TTX concentrations globally,...
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Shin H, Li Z, Reveillon D, Savar V, Hess P, Neil Mertens K, et al.
Harmful Algae
. 2024 Jan;
131:102559.
PMID: 38212088
To understand environmental effects affecting paralytic shellfish toxin production of Centrodinium punctatum, this study examined the growth responses, and toxin contents and profiles of a C. punctatum culture exposed to...
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Meyvisch P, Neil Mertens K, Gurdebeke P, Sandt C, Pospelova V, Vrielinck H, et al.
J Phycol
. 2023 Aug;
59(5):1064-1084.
PMID: 37623312
Attenuated total reflection (ATR) microscope Fourier transform infrared (micro-FTIR) spectroscopy was used to investigate the dinosporin composition in the walls of modern, organic-walled dinoflagellate resting cysts (dinocysts). Variable cyst wall...
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Neil Mertens K, Retho M, Manach S, Zoffoli M, Doner A, Schapira M, et al.
Harmful Algae
. 2023 May;
125:102426.
PMID: 37220980
At the end of July 2021, a bloom of Lingulodinium polyedra developed along the French Atlantic coast and lasted six weeks. The REPHY monitoring network and the citizen participation project...
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Gu H, Neil Mertens K, Derrien A, Bilien G, Li Z, Hess P, et al.
J Phycol
. 2022 Mar;
58(3):465-486.
PMID: 35234279
The taxonomy of the extant dinoflagellate genus Gonyaulax is challenging since its thecate morphology is rather conservative. In contrast, cysts of Gonyaulax are varied in morphology and have been related...
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Li Z, Park J, Kang N, Chomerat N, Neil Mertens K, Gu H, et al.
Harmful Algae
. 2021 Nov;
109:102107.
PMID: 34815020
To clarify an unspecified toxic Gambierdiscus-like species isolated from seawaters off Jeju Island, Korea, its morphology and molecular phylogeny based on the small subunit (SSU) and partial large subunit (LSU)...
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Meyvisch P, Gurdebeke P, Vrielinck H, Neil Mertens K, Versteegh G, Louwye S
Appl Spectrosc
. 2021 Sep;
76(2):235-254.
PMID: 34494488
The chemical composition of recent and fossil organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst walls and its diversity is poorly understood and analyses on single microscopic specimens are rare. A series of infrared spectroscopic...