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MacKenzie L. (1992) Does Dinophysis (Dinophyceae) have a sexual life cycle? – Journal of Phycology 28: 399-406.
MacKenzie L., I. Sims, V. Beuzenberg & P. Gillespie (2002) Mass accumulation of mucilage caused by dinoflagellate polysaccharide exudates in Tasman Bay, New Zealand. – Harmful Algae 1(1): 69-83.
MacKenzie L. & K. Todd (2002) Alexandrium camurascututlum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): a new dinoflagellate species from New Zealand. - Harmful Algae 1(3): 295-300.
MacKenzie L., D. White, Y. Oshima & J. Kappa (1996) The resting cyst and toxicity of Alexandrium ostenfeldii (Dinophyceae) in New Zealand. - Phycologia 35: 148-155.

MacLean S.A. & C.L. Rudell (1978) Three new crustacean hosts for the parasitic dinoflagellate Hematodinium perezi (Dinoflagellata: Syndinidae). - Journal of Parasitology 64(1): 158-160.

Maestrini S.Y., R.B. Berland, D. Grzebyk & A.M. Spanò (1995) Dinophysis ssp. Cell concentrated from nature for experimental purposes, using size fractionaion and reverse migration. – Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 9: 177-182.

Maguer J.-F., S. L’Helguen, C. Madec, C. Labry & P. Le Corre (2007) Nitrogen uptake and assimilation kinetics in Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae): effect of N-limited growth rate on nitrate and ammonium interactions. – Journal of Phycology 43(2): 295-303.

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Makino W., K. Ito, Y. Oshima & J. Urabe (2008) Effects of Protoceratium reticulatum yessotoxin on feeding rates of Acartia hudsonica: A bioassay using artificial particles coated with purified toxin. - Harmful Algae 7(5): 639-645.

Malinsky-Rushansky N.Z., T. Berman, Z. Dubinsky (1997) Seasonal photosynthetic activity of autotrophic picoplankton in Lake Kinneret, Israel. - Journal of Plankton Research 19(8): 979-993.

Mallin M.A., J.M. Burkholder, L.M. Larsen & H.B. Glasgow Jr. (1995) Response of two zooplankton grazers to an ichthyotoxic estuarine dinoflagellate. - Journal of Plankton Research 17: 351-363.

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Mangin L. (1907) Observations sur la constitution de la membrane chez les Péridiniens. - Comptes Rendues hebdomaires des Scéances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris 144: 1055 ff ???
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Mangin L. (1908) Sur une méthode d’analyse des organismes du plankton. – Bulletin de la Societé Botanique de France 4e Série, 8: 574 ff.
Mangin L. (1910) Sur quelques algues nouvelles ou peu connues du phytoplankton de l’océan Atlantique. – Bulletin de la Societé Botanique de France 4e Série, 10: 344 ff.
Mangin L. (1911) Observations sur le phytoplankton de la côte occidentale d’Afrique.     ? (from Dangeard 1927). 
Mangin L. (1911) Sur l’existence d’individus dextres & senestres chez certains Péridiniens. - Comptes Rendues hebdomaires des Scéances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris 153: 27-33.
Mangin L. (1911) Modifications de la cuirasse chez quelques Péridiniens. Note préliminaire. – Internationale Revue für die gesamte Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie 4: 44-54 + pls. 7-8.
Mangin L. (1911) Sur le Peridiniopsis asymetrica & le Peridinium Paulseni. - Comptes Rendues hebdomaires des Scéances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris 153: 644-649.
Mangin L. (1912) Phytoplancton de la croisière du René dans l’Atlantique. – Annales de l’Institut Océanographique, Monaco 4(1): 1-66 + pls. 1-2.
Mangin L. (1913) Sur la flore planctonique de la rade de Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue 1908-1912. – Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris Série 5, 5: 147-241 + Tab.
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Manning, M. Mackenzie & R.D. Gates (2008) Diversity in populations of free-living Symbiodinium from a Caribbean and Pacific reef. - Limnology and Oceanography 53(5): 1853-1861.

Mansoor S. & S.M. Saifullah (1995) A new species and new variety of Amphisolenia Stein from the North Arabian Sea bordering Pakistan. - Pakistan Journal of Marine Science 4(1): 5-8.

Mansour M.P., J.K. Volkman, D.G. Holdsworth, A.E. Jackson & S.I. Blackburn (1999) Very-long chain (28C) highly unsaturated fatty acids in a marine dinoflagellates. – Phytochemistry 50(4): 541-548.
Mansour M.P., J.K. Volkman, A.E. Jackson & S.I. Blackburn (1999) The fatty acid and sterol composition of five marine dinoflagellates. – Journal of Phycology 35(4): 710-720.

Mappletoft H., M. Montgomery, J. Waters & P. Wells (1966) A new freshwater dinoflagellate. - New Phytologist 65: 54-58.

Maranda L. (2001) Infection of Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae) by the parasite Amoebophrya sp. (Dinoflagellea). - Journal of Phycology 37(2): 245-248.
Maranda L., D.M. Anderson & Y. Shimizu (1985) Comparision of toxicity between populations of Gonyaulax tamarensis of eastern North American waters. – Estuar. Coastl Shelf Sci 21: 401-410.
Maranda L. & Y. Shimizu (1996) Amphidinium operculatum var. nov. gibbosum (Dinophyceae), a free-swimming marine species producing cytotoxic metabolites. - Journal of  Phycology 32(5): 873-879.

Marasovic I. (1989) Encystment and excystment of Gonyaulax polyedra during a red tide. - Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 28: 35-41.

Marcinko C.L.J., S.C. Painter, A.P. Martin & J.T. Allen (2013) A review of the measurement and modelling of dinoflagellate bioluminescence. - Progress in Oceanography 109: 117-129.

Margalef R. (1961) Hidrografía y fitoplancton de un área marina de la costa meridional de Puerto Rico. - Investigaciones Pesqueras 18: 33-96.
Margalef R. (1961) Fitoplancton atlántico de las costas de Mauretania y Senegal. - Investigaciones Pesqueras 20: 131-143.
Margalef R. (1963) Scaphodinium mirabile nov. gen., nov. sp., un nuevo dinoflagellado aberrante del plancton marino. - Miscelanea Zoologica, Museo de Zoologica, Barcelona 1(5): 3-4.
Margalef R. (1968) Composición y distribución del fitoplancton. - Mems Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle 25-1965/67(70-72): 141-205.      (fide Sornia 1973)
Margalef R. (1969) Composicion espécifica del fitoplancton de la costa catalonolevantina (Mediterraneo occidental) en 1962-1967. - Inv. Pesq. 33(1): 345-380.  (fide Sournia 1973)
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Margalef R. (1975) Composition y distribucion del fitoplancton marino en la region de afloramiento del NW de Africa en marzo de 1973 (campana <<Atlor II>> del <<Cornide de Saavedra>>). - Res. Exped. cient. B/O Cornide 4: 145-170.
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Marin I., A. Aguilera, S. Gonzáles-Gil, B. Reguera & J.P. Abad (2001) A method for preparation of DNA suitable for molecular biology applications from single cell of dinoflagellates. – Biotechniques 30: 88-93.
Marin I., A. Aguilera, B. Reguera & J.P. Abad (2001) Genetic analysis of several species of Dinophysis causing diarrheic shellfish outbreakes in Galicia (NW Spain). - In: Harmful Algal Blooms. (G.M. Hallegraeff, S.I. Blackburn, C.J. Bolch & R.J. Lewis (Eds). - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Paris, pp. 222-225.

Markell D.A. & R.K. Trench (1993) Macromolecules exuded by symbiotic dinoflagellates in culture: amino acid and sugar components. – Journal of Phycology 29(1): 64-68.

Marr J.C., A.E. Jackson & J.L. McLachlan (1992) Occurence of Prorocentrum lima, a DSP toxin-producing species from the Atlantic coast of Canada. – Journal of Applied Phycology 4: 17-24.

Marshall H.G. (1972) Phytoplankton composition in the south-eastern Pacific between Ecuador and the Galápagos Island (Archipiélago de Colón) - Proce Biol. Soc.Wash. 85: 1-38.
Marshall H.G. (1982) Phytoplankton composition from two saline lakes in San Salvador, Bahamas. - Bulletin of Marine Schience 32(1): 351-353.
Marshall H.G., P.E. Hargraves, J.M. Burkholder, M.W. Parrow, M. Elbrächter, E.H. Allen, V.M. Knowlton, A. Rublee, W.L. Hynes, T.A. Egerton, D.L. Remington, K.B. Wyatt, K.J. Coyne, A.J. Lewitus & V.C. Henrich (2006) Morphologic and genetic relationships in Pfiesteria shumwayae (Dinophyceae) and related dinoflagellates. – Harmful Algae 5: 481-496.
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Marsot P. (1997) Variations du volume e des quotas en N et P d’Alexandrium tamarense (dinoflagellata) en culture continue limitant en nitrate. - Oceanologica Acta 20(4): 639-643.

Martin G.W. (1929) Three new dinoflagellates from New Yersey. – Botanical Gazette 87(4): 556-558.
Martin G.W. (1929) Dinoflagellates from marine waters and brackish waters of New Jersey. - University of Iowa  Studies. - Studies in Natural History NS 159: 1-32.

Martínez-Cruz M.E., Y.B. Okolodkov, A.C. Aguillar-Trujillo & J.A. Herrera-Silveira (2015) Epiphytic dinoflagellates on the seagrass Thalassia testudinum at Dzilam, southeastern Gulf of Mexico. - Cymbella 1(3): 2-9.

Maruma T. (1982) Fine structure of the longitudinal flagellum in Ceratium tripos, a marine dinoflagellate. - J. Cell Sci. 58: 109-123.

 

Maruyama S. & V.M. Weis (2021) Limitations of using cultured algae to study cnidarian-algal symbioses and suggestions for future studies. - Journal of Phycology 57(1): 30-38.

Masó M. & E. Garcés (2006) Harmful microalgae blooms (HAB); problematic and conditions that induce them. - Marine Pollution Bulletin 53: 620-630.
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Mason P.L., R.W. Litaker, H.J. Jeong, J.H. Ha, K.S. Reece, N.A. Stokes, J.Y. Park, K.A. Steidinger, M.W. Vandersea, S.Kibler, P.A. Tester & W.K. Vogelbein (2007) Description of a new genus of Pfiesteriaca-like dinoflagellate, Luciella gen. nov. (Dinophyceae), including two new species: Luciella masanensis sp. nov. and Luciella atlantis sp. nov.. – Journal of Phycology 43(4): 799-810.
Mason P.L., W.K. Vogelbein, L.W. Haas & J.D. Shields (2003) An improved stripping technique for lightly armoured dinoflagellates. - Journal of Phycology 39(1): 253-258.

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Masson-Pévet M., I. Balzer & R. Hardeland (1997) Testing for melatonin receptors in Gonyaulax polyedra. - In: Biological Rhythms and Antioxidative Protection (R. Hardeland, ed.), Cuvillier, Göttingen, pp. 107-109.

Masters B.A. & R.W. Scott (1978) Microstructure, affinities and systematics of Cretaceous calcispheres. - Micropaleontology 24(2): 210-221.

 

Matantseva O., I. Pozdnyakov, M. Voss, I. Liskow & S. Skarlato (2018) The uncoupled assimilation of carbon and nitrogen from urea and glycine by the bloom-forming dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum. - Protist 169(5): 603-614.

Mathes J. & H. Arndt (1994) Biomass and composition of protozooplankton in relation to lake trophy in north German lakes. - Marine Microbial Food Webs 8(1-2): 357-375.
Mathes J. & H. Arndt  (1995) Annual cycle of protozooplankton (ciliates, flagellates and sarcodines) in relation to phyto- and metazooplankton in Lake Neumühler See (Mecklenburg, Germany). - Arch. Hydrobiol. 134(3): 337-358.

Matsumoto T., F. Shinozaki, T. Chikuni, A. Yabuki, K. Takishita, M. Kawachi, T. Nakayama, I. Inouye, T. Hashimoto & Y. Inagaki (2011) Green-colored plastids in the dinoflagellate genus Lepidodinium are of core Chlorophyte origin. - Protist 162(2): 268-276.

Matsuoka K. (1974) Some plant microfossils from the Miocene Fujiwara Group, Nara, Central Japan. – Trans. Proc. Paleontol. Soc. Japan, N.S. 94: 319-340, pls. 44-46.
Matsuoka K. (1976) Recent thecate and fossilized dinoflagellates off Hachinohe Coast, Northeastern Japan. – Publications Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. 23(3-5): 351-369.
Matsuoka K. (1983) List of synonyms of late Pleistocene to Holocene dinoflagellate cysts. I. Gonyaulax group. - News of Osaka Micropaleontologists 11: 1-32.
Matsuoka K. (1984) Cyst and theca forms of Protoperidinium conicum (Gran) Balech (Dinophyceae). - Jap. J. Phycol. 32: 251-256.
Matsuoka K. (1985a) Archeopyle structure in modern gymnodinialeaen dinoflagellate cysts. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 44: 217-231.
Matsuoka K. (1985b) Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts from surface sediments of Nagasaki Bay and Senzaki Bay, West Japan. – Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University/ Natural Science 25(2): 21-115.
Matsuoka K. (1985c) Cyst and thecate forms of Pyrophacus steinii (Schiller) Wall & Dale, 1971. - Trans. Proc. Palaeontol. Soc. Japan 140: 240-262.
Matsuoka K. (1987a) Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts from surface sediments of Akkeshi Bay and Lake Saroma, North Japan. – Bull. Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki Univ., (Natural Science) 28(1): 35-123.
Matsuoka K. (1987b) Late Cenozoic dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy from the west coast of northern Japan. – Micropalaentology 33(3): 214-229, pls. 1-2.
Matsuoka K. (1988) Cyst-theca relationships in the Diplopsalis group (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 56: 95-122. 
Matsuoka K. (1992) Seasonal variability of palymorphs in a JT-03 sediment trap settled in the Japan Trench. – Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science 32(2): 221-233.
Matsuoka K. & Y. Fukuyo (1986) Cyst and motile morphology of a colonial dinoflagellate Pheopolykrikos hartmannii (Zimmermann) comb. nov. – Journal of Plankton Research 8: 811-818. 
Matsuoka K., Y. Fukuyo & D.M. Anderson (1988) The cyst and theca of Gonyaulax verior Sournia (Dinophyceae) and their implication for the systematics of the Genus Gonyaulax. – The Japanese Journal of Phycology 36(4): 311-320.
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Matsuoka K. & M.J. Head (1992) Taxonomic revision of the neogene marine palymorphs Cyclopsiella granosa (Matsuoka) and Baltishaera minuta (Matsuoka), and a new species of Pyxidinopsis Habib (Dinophyceae) from the Miocene of the Labrador Sea. – In: Neogene and Quarternary Dinoflagellate Cysts and Acritarchs (M.J. Head & J.H. Wrenn Eds) American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas pp. 165-180.
Matsuoka K., H. Kawami, R. Fujii & M. Iwataki (2006) Further examination of the cyst-theca relationship of Protoperidinium thulesense (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) and the phylogenetic significance of round brown cysts. – Phycologia 45(6): 632-641.
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Matsuoka K., S. Kobayashi & G. Gaines (1990) A new species of the genus Ensiculifera (Dinophyceae); ist cyst and motile forms. - Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan 37(2): 127-143.
Matsuoka K., P. Pholpunthin & Y. Fukuyo (1998) Is the archaetype of Tuberculodinium vancampoae (Rossignol) Wall (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) on the hypocyst? - Palaeontological Research 2: 183-192.

Matthiessen J., A. De Vernal, M. Head, Y. Okolodkov, K. Zonneveld & R. Harland (2005) Modern organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in Arctic marine environments and their (paleo-)environmental significance. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79(1): 3-51.

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McCarthy F.G., K.N. Mertens, M. Ellegaard, V. Pospelova, S. Ribeiro & D. Vercauteren (2011) Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication. - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 166: 46-62.

McCarthy F.M.G., H. Gu, K.N. Mertens,C. Carbonell-Moore, A.M. Krueger, Y. Takano & K. Matsuoka (2018) Transferring the freshwater dinoflagellate Peridinium wisconsinense (Dinophyceae) to the family Thoracosphaeraceae, with the description of Fusiperidinium gen. nov. - Phycological Research 66: 137-148.

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