2019

1.     Sun, P., Huang, L., Xu, D., Warren, A., Huang, B., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Xiao, W., Kong, J. 2019. Integrated Space-Time Dataset Reveals High Diversity and Distinct Community Structure of Ciliates in Mesopelagic Waters of the Northern South China Sea. Front. Microbiol., 10:2178. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02178

2.     Song, W., Xu, D., Zhang, Q., Liu, W., Warren, A., Song, W. 2019. Taxonomy and phylogeny of two poorly studied genera of marine oligotrich ciliates including descriptions of two new species: Cyrtostrombidium paraboreale sp. n. and Apostrombidium orientale sp. n. (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea). Europ. J. Protistol., 70, 1–16.

3.     Li, X., Xu, J., Shi, Z., Xu, D., Li, R., Li, Q., Liu, H. 2019. Regulation of protist grazing on bacterioplankton by hydrological conditions in coastal waters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 218, 1–8.

4.     Li, X., Warren, A., Jiao, N., Xu*, D. Distribution of protists in the deep South China Sea revealed by high-throughput sequencing. Journal of Ocean University of China, in press.

2018

1.        Xu*, D., Sun, P., Zhang, Y., Li, R., Huang, B., Jiao, N., & Warren, A. 2018. Pigmented microbial eukaryotes fuel the deep sea carbon pool in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean. Environ. Microbiol. 20, 3811–3824.

2.       Li, R., Jiao, N., Warren, A. & Xu*, D. 2018. Changes in community structure of active protistan assemblages from the lower Pearl River to coastal South China Sea. Europ. Protistol. 63, 72–82.

2017

3.       Xu*, D., Li, R., Hu, C., Jiao, N. & Warren, A. 2017. Microbial Eukaryote Diversity and Activity in the Water Column of the South China Sea Based on DNA and RNA High Throughput Sequencing. Front. Microbiol., 8:1121. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01121

4.       Xu, D.*, Jiao, N., Ren, R. & Warren, A. 2017. Distribution and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in bathypelagic waters of the South China Sea. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., doi:10.1111/jeu.12372

2017以前

1.        Sun, P.*, Clamp, J., Xu, D.*, Huang, B. & Shin, M.K. 2016. An integrative approach to phylogeny reveals patterns of environmental distribution and novel evolutionary relationships in a major group of ciliates. Scientific Reports, 6: 21695.

2.       Xu, D.,* Jiao, N., Ren, R. & Warren, A. 2016. Distribution and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in bathypelagic waters of the South China Sea. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., in press. (* corresponding author)

3.        Santoferraraa, L.F., Bachy, C., Alder, V.A., Gong, J., Kim, Y., Saccá, A., da Silva Neto, I.D., Strüder-Kypke, M.C., Warren, A., Xu, D., Yi, Z. & Agatha, S. 2016. Updating biodiversity studies in loricate protists: the case of the Tintinnids (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotrichea). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., in press.

4.       Gao, F., Warren, A., Zhang*, Q., Gong*, J., Miao*, M., Sun*, P., Xu*, D., Huang*, J., Yi, Z. & Song, W. 2016. The all-data-based evolutionary hypothesis of ciliated protists with a revised classification of the phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata). Sci. Rep., 6, 24874; doi: 10.1038/srep24874. (* equal contribution)

5.        Liu, W.,* Xu, D.,* Ma, H., Al-Farraj, S.A., Warren A. & Yi, Z. 2016. Taxonomy and molecular systematics of three oligotrich (s.l.) ciliates including descriptions of two new species, Strombidium guangdongense sp. nov. and Strombidinopsis sinicum sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora), Systematics and Biodiversity, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1162872. (* co-first author)

6.       Liu, W., Yi, Z., Xu, D., Clamp, J.C., Li, J., Lin, X. & Song, W. 2015. Two New Genera of Planktonic Ciliates and Insights into the Evolution of the Family Strombidiidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia). PLoS ONE 10(6): e0131726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131726.

7.        Lee, E.S., Kim, Y., Agatha, S., Jung, J., Xu, D. & Shin, M.K. 2015. Revision of Strombidium paracalkinsi (Ciliophora: Oligotrichea: Oligotrichia), with comparison of Strombidiids bearing thigmotactic membranelles. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 62:400–409.

8.       Sun, P., Clamp, J., Xu, D., Huang, B., Shin, M.K. & Tuner, F. 2013. An ITS-based phylogenetic framework for the genus Vorticella: finding the molecular and morphological gaps in a taxonomically difficult group. Proc. R. Soc. B., 280: 20131177.

9.       Xu, D., Cobb, M.G., Gavilano, L., Witherspoon, S.M., Williams, D., White, C.D., Taverna, P., Bednarski, B.K., Kim, H.J., Baldwin, A.S. & Baines, A.T. 2013. Inhibition of oncogenic Pim-3 kinase modulates transformed growth and chemosensitizes pancreatic cancer cells to gemcitabine. Cancer Biology & Therapy, 14:1–10.

10.     Xu, D., Sun, P., Warren, A., Noh, J.H., Choi, D.L., Shin, M.K. & Kim, Y.O. 2013. Phylogenetic investigations on ten genera of tintinnid ciliates (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea: Tintinnida), based on small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 60:192–202.

11.      Xu, D., Sun, P., Shin, M.K. & Kim, Y.O. 2012. Species boundaries in tintinnid ciliates: a case study – morphometric variability, molecular characterization and temporal distribution of Helicostomella species (Ciliophora, Tintinnina). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 59:351–358.

12.     Sun, P., Xu, D., Clamp, J. & Shin, M.K. 2012. Morphology and molecular characterization of a poorly known marine ectocommensal ciliate, Myoschiston duplicatum Precht, 1935 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia): Implications for the phylogenetic relationship between three morphologically similar genera–Myoschiston, Zoothamnium and Zoothamnopsis in the family Zoothamniidae. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (in press)

13.     Sun, P., Clamp, J.C., Xu, D., Kusuoka, Y. & Miao, W. 2012. Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767 (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophora, Peritrichia) is a grade not a clade: redefinition of Vorticella and the Families Vorticellidae and Astylozoidae using molecular characters derived from the gene coding for small subunit ribosomal RNA. Protist. 163:129–142.

14.     Xu, D., Allsop, S., Witherspoon, S.M., Snider, J., Yeh, J.J., Fiordalisi, J.J., White, C.D., Williams, D., Cox, A.D. & Baines, A.T. 2011. The oncogenic kinase Pim-1 is modulated by K-Ras signaling and mediates transformed growth and radioresistance in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells. Carcinogenesis., 32:488–459.

15.     Baines, A.T., Xu, D. & Der, C.J. 2011. Inhibition of Ras for cancer treatment: the search continues. Future Med. Chem., 3:1787–1808.

16.     Xu, D., Sun, P., Clamp, J.C. & Song, W. 2011. The establishment of a new oligotrich genus Varistrombidium n. gen. and the morphology and phylogeny of a marine ciliate V. kielum (Maeda & Carey, 1985) n. comb. (Protista, Ciliophra) Acta Zootaxonom. Sin., 36:502–511.

17.     Sun, P., Clamp, J.C., Xu, D., Kusuoka, Y. & Hori, M. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the family Vorticellidae (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) using combined datasets with a special emphasis on the three morphologically similar genera Carchesium, Epicarchesium and Apocarchesium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 61:1001–1010.

18.     McManus, G.B., Xu, D., Costas, B. & Katz, L. 2010. Genetic identities of cryptic species in the Strombidium stylifer/apolatum/oculatum cluster, including a description of Strombidium rassoulzadegani n. sp. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 57:369–378.

19.     Sun P, Clamp JC, & Xu D. 2010. Analysis of the secondary structure of ITS transcripts in peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea): implications for structural evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction. Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 56:242–51.

20.    Zhang, Q., Yi, Z., Xu, D., Al-rasheid, K.A.S., Gong, J. & Song, W. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of oligotrich genera Omegastrombidium and Novistrombidium (Protozoa, Ciliophora) for the systematical relationships within Family Strombidiidae. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 28:769–777.

21.     Liu, W., Xu, D., Lin, X., Li, J., Gong, J., Al-rasheld, K. A. S. & Song, W. 2009. Novistrombidium sinicum n. sp. and Novistrombidium orientale n. sp. (Protozoa: Ciliophora): Two New Oligotrich Ciliates from a Mangrove Wetland, South China. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 56:459–465.

22.    Xu, D., Sun, P., Song, W. & Warren, A. 2008. Studies on a new endocommensal ciliate, Strombidium foissneri nov. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligotrichida), from the intestine of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus (Camarodonta, Echinoida). Denisia, 23:273–278.

23.    Tsai, S., Xu, D., Chung, C. & Chiang, K. 2008. Parastrombidinopsis minima n. sp. (Ciliophora: Oligotrichia) from the Coastal Waters of Northeastern Taiwan: Morphology and Small Subunit Ribosomal DNA Sequence. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 55:567–573.

24.    Xu, D., Song, W., Warren, A., Roberts, D. & Hu, X. 2007. Redescriptions of two marine planktonic ciliates from China, Parastrombidium faurei (Kahl, 1932) Maeda, 1986 and Strombidium capitatum (Leegaard, 1915) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea). Eur. J. Protistol., 43:27–45.

25.    Sun, P., Song, W. & Xu, D. 2007. Two New Marine Species of Pseudovorticella (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) from Qingdao, North China. Acta Protozool., 1:55–64.

26.    Xu, D., Song, W. & Warren, A. 2006. Morphology and infraciliature of two new species of marine oligotrich ciliates (Ciliophora: Oligotrichida) from China. J. Nat. Hist., 40:1287–1299.

27.     Xu, D., Song, W. & Lin, X. 2006. On two marine oligotrich ciliates, Spirostrombidium agathae nov. spec. and S. schizostomum (Kahl, 1932) nov. comb. from China, with a key to the identification of seven well-characterized Spirostrombidium spp. (Ciliophora: Oligotrichida). Acta Protozool., 45:433–442.

28.    Xu, D. & Song, W. 2006. Hapantotypification and morphological redescription of the marine planktonic ciliate, Spirostrombidium cinctum (Kahl, 1932) Petz, Song et Wilbert, 1995 (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Oligotrichida). Acta Protozool., 45:17–25.

29.    Xu, D., Song, W., Sun, P. & Chen, X. 2006. Morphology and infraciliature of the oligotrich ciliate Strombidium rapulum (Yagiu, 1933) Kahl, 1934 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichida) from the intestine of sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus Agassiz. Zootaxa, 1113:33–40.

30.    Cai, S., Song, W., Xu, D. & Chiang, K. 2006. Morphological studies on the infraciliature of a planktonic ciliate, Tintinnopsis brasiliensis (Ciliophora: Tintinina). J. Ocean Univ. China, 15:55–57.

31.     Xu, D., Song, W. & Hu, X. 2005. Morphology of Cyclotrichium taniguchii sp. nov. and C. cyclokaryon with establishment of a new genus, Dicyclotrichium gen. nov. (Ciliophora, Haptorida). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK, 85:787–794.

32.    Xu, D. & Song, W. 2005. Tintinnid ciliates from Qingdao (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Tintinnida). Acta Zootaxonom. Sin., 30:501–508. (in Chinese with English summary)

33.    Xu, D., Song, W. & Hu, X. 2005. Notes on two marine ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China, Placus salinus and Strombidium apolatum (Protozoa, Ciliophora). J. Ocean Univ. China, 4:137–144.