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John R. Dolan is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research focuses extensively on fields related to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with numerous publications in specialized subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Polar Research and Ecology, History of Science and Natural History, as well as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

John R. Dolan has contributed scholarly articles to a variety of publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Arts et sciences
  • Protist
  • European Journal of Protistology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their recent notable papers cover diverse aspects of oceanography and protistology and include:

  • "Protist diversity and function in the dark ocean - Challenging the paradigms of deep-sea ecology with special emphasis on foraminiferans and naked protists" (2020), published in European Journal of Protistology
  • "Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The Origins of Oceanography in France: The Scientific Expeditions of Travailleur and Talisman (1880-1883)" (2020), published in Oceanography
  • "Notes on the Occurrence of Tintinnid Ciliates, and the Nasselarian Radiolarian Amphimelissa setosa of the Marine Microzooplankton, in the Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean) Sampled each August from 2011 to 2020" (2021), published in Acta Protozoologica
  • "Pioneers of plankton research: Victor Hensen (1835-1924)" (2021), published in Journal of Plankton Research

Collaboration is a notable part of John R. Dolan's academic profile. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Eun Jin Yang
  • Jong-Kuk Moon
  • Fabien Lombard
  • Emmanuel Boss
  • Yiwei Lyu

The scientist's research contributes to understanding the ecological roles and diversity of protists in marine environments, including deep-sea and polar ecosystems. Their interdisciplinary approach bridges historical perspectives on oceanography with advanced studies in microbial community ecology and marine biology.

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Changes in Bacterial Community Composition and Dynamics and Viral Mortality Rates Associated with Enhanced Flagellate Grazing in a Mesoeutrophic Reservoir

    Karel Šimek;Karel Šimek;Jakob Pernthaler;Markus G. Weinbauer;Karel Hornák

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect interocean plankton transport

    Emilie Villar;Gregory K. Farrant;Gregory K. Farrant;Michael Follows;Laurence Garczarek;Laurence Garczarek

  • Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study.

    Charles Bachy;John R Dolan;Purificación López-García;Philippe Deschamps

  • Planktonic ciliate distribution relative to a deep chlorophyll maximum: Catalan Sea, N.W. Mediterranean, June 1993

    John R. Dolan;Celia Marrasé

  • Growth and grazing on Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus by two marine ciliates

    Urania Christaki;Stéphan Jacquet;John R. Dolan;Daniel Vaulot

  • Viral activity in two contrasting lake ecosystems

    Yvan Bettarel;Télesphore Sime-Ngando;Christian Amblard;John Dolan

  • Consumption of picoplankton-size particles by marine ciliates : Effects of physiological state of the ciliate and particle quality

    Urania Christaki;John R. Dolan;Silvia Pelegri;Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan

  • Maximum growth rates and possible life strategies of different bacterioplankton groups in relation to phosphorus availability in a freshwater reservoir

    Karel Šimek;Karel Šimek;Karel Horňák;Karel Horňák;Jan Jezbera;Jan Jezbera;Jiří Nedoma

  • Microzooplankton diversity: relationships of tintinnid ciliates with resources, competitors and predators from the Atlantic Coast of Morocco to the Eastern Mediterranean

    J.R Dolan;Hervé Claustre;F Carlotti;S Plounevez

  • Shifts in bacterial community composition associated with different microzooplankton size fractions in a eutrophic reservoir

    Karel Šimek;Karel Šimek;Petra Kojecká;Petra Kojecká;Jiří Nedoma;Petr Hartman

  • Dilution effects on microzooplankton in dilution grazing experiments

    J. R. Dolan;C. L. Gallegos;A. Moigis

  • Synergistic and antagonistic effects of viral lysis and protistan grazing on bacterial biomass, production and diversity.

    Markus G. Weinbauer;Karel Hornák;Jan Jezbera;Jiři Nedoma

  • An introduction to the biogeography of aquatic microbes

    Published November;John R. Dolan;A. J. Baldwin;P. Catala

  • Planktonic ciliates in the Mediterranean Sea: longitudinal trends

    J.R. Dolan;F. Vidussi;H. Claustre

  • Nanoflagellates (mixotrophs, heterotrophs and autotrophs) in the oligotrophic eastern Mediterranean: standing stocks, bacterivory and relationships with bacterial production

    Urania Christaki;John R. Dolan

  • Costs, benefits and characteristics of mixotrophy in marine oligotrichs

    John R. Dolan;John R. Dolan;Maria Teresa PÉrez

  • The biology and ecology of tintinnid ciliates: models for marine plankton

    J R Dolan;D J S Montagnes;Sabine Agatha;D.W Coats

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Karel Šimek
Karel Šimek Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
Markus G. Weinbauer
Markus G. Weinbauer Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Urania Christaki
Urania Christaki University of Lille
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Télesphore Sime-Ngando
Télesphore Sime-Ngando University of Clermont Auvergne
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan
Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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