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Øjvind Moestrup is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their subfields of study include Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, and Cell Biology.

Their work concentrates on topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Toxins and Detection Methods, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Diatoms and Algae Research, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Øjvind Moestrup has published research in several scientific venues with multiple contributions in the following journals:

  • European Journal of Protistology (3 publications)
  • Phycologia (3 publications)
  • Harmful Algae (2 publications)
  • Science Advances (1 publication)
  • European Journal of Phycology (1 publication)

Recent papers by Øjvind Moestrup include:

  • Dimorphism in cryptophytes-The case of Teleaulax amphioxeia / Plagioselmis prolonga and its ecological implications, 2020, Science Advances
  • Morphological and phylogenetic data do not support the split of Alexandrium into four genera, 2020, Harmful Algae
  • Five Karenia species along the Chinese coast: With the description of a new species, Karenia hui sp. nov. (Kareniaceae, Dinophyta), 2024, Harmful Algae
  • Fine-structural characterization and phylogeny of Sphaerodinium (Suessiales, Dinophyceae), with the description of an unusual type of freshwater dinoflagellate cyst, 2021, European Journal of Protistology
  • Cell fine structure and phylogeny of Parvodinium: towards an ultrastructural characterization of the Peridiniopsidaceae (Dinophyceae), 2022, European Journal of Phycology

Frequent collaborators in their research include António J. Calado, Niels Daugbjerg, Nina Lundholm, Mariana S. Pandeirada, and Sandra C. Craveiro.

Best Publications

  • The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists

    Sina M Adl;Alastair G. B. Simpson;Mark A Farmer;Robert A. Andersen

  • Phylogeny of some of the major genera of dinoflagellates based on ultrastructure and partial LSU rDNA sequence data, including the erection of three new genera of unarmoured dinoflagellates

    N. Daugbjerg;G. Hansen;J. Larsen;Ø. Moestrup

  • Phycological Reviews 7

    Øjvind Moestrup

  • Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists.

    Sina M. Adl;Brian S. Leander;Alastair G. B. Simpson;John M. Archibald

  • A STUDY OF THE PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA PSEUDODELICATISSIMA/CUSPIDATA COMPLEX (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE): WHAT IS P. PSEUDODELICATISSIMA? 1

    Nina Lundholm;Øjvind Moestrup;Grethe Rytter Hasle;Kerstin Hoef‐Emden

  • INTER‐ AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION OF THE PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA DELICATISSIMA COMPLEX (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) ILLUSTRATED BY RRNA PROBES, MORPHOLOGICAL DATA AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES1

    Nina Lundholm;Øjvind Moestrup;Yuichi Kotaki;Kerstin Hoef-Emden

  • Phylogeny of the Bacillariaceae with emphasis on the genus Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) based on partial LSU rDNA

    Nina Lundholm;Niels Daugbjerg;Øjvind Moestrup

  • Detection of an anatoxin-a(s)-like anticholinesterase in natural blooms and cultures of cyanobacteria/blue-green algae from danish lakes and in the stomach contents of poisoned birds

    Peter Henriksen;Wayne W. Carmichael;Jisi An;Øjvind Moestrup

  • Domoic acid, the toxic amino acid responsible for amnesic shellfish poisoning, now in Pseudonitzschia seriata (Bacillariophyceae) in Europe

    Nina Lundholm;Jette Skov;Roger Pocklington;Øjvind Moestrup

  • Parvilucifera infectans norén et moestrup gen. et sp. nov. (perkinsozoa phylum nov.): a parasitic flagellate capable of killing toxic microalgae

    Fredrik Norén;Øjvind Moestrup;Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm

  • THE MARINE DINOFLAGELLATE ALEXANDRIUM OSTENFELDII: PARALYTIC SHELLFISH TOXIN CONCENTRATION, COMPOSITION, AND TOXICITY TO A TINTINNID CILIATE1

    Per Juel Hansen;Allan D. Cembella;Øjvind Moestrup

  • Morphology, physiology, molecular phylogeny and sexual compatibility of the cryptic Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima complex (Bacillariophyta), including the description of P. arenysensis sp. nov

    Sonia Isabel Quijano-Scheggia;Esther Garcés;Nina Lundholm;Øjvind Moestrup

  • ON THE IDENTITY OF KARLODINIUM VENEFICUM AND DESCRIPTION OF KARLODINIUM ARMIGER SP. NOV. (DINOPHYCEAE), BASED ON LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, NUCLEAR‐ENCODED LSU RDNA, AND PIGMENT COMPOSITION1

    Trine Bergholtz;Niels Daugbjerg;Ojvind Moestrup;Margarita Fernandez-Tejedor

  • Why Plants Were Terrestrial from the Beginning.

    Jesper Harholt;Øjvind Moestrup;Peter Ulvskov

  • An ultrastructural study of the flagellatePyramimonas orientalis with particular emphasis on Golgi apparatus activity and the flagellar apparatus

    Øjvind Moestrup;Helge A. Thomsen

  • On dinoflagellate phylogeny and classification

    òjvind Moestrup;Niels Daugbjerg

  • Marine epibenthic dinoflagellates from Malaysia - A study of live cultures and preserved samples based on light and scanning electron microscopy

    N. Mohammad-Noor;N. Daugbjerg;Ø Moestrup;A. Anton

  • Ultrastructure of the flagellar apparatus in Pyramimonas octopus (Prasinophyceae)

    Ø. Moestrup;T. Hori

  • Autecology of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii : life history and growth at different temperatures and salinities

    Marianne Østergaard Jensen;Øjvind Moestrup

  • Terminology and nomenclature of the cytoskeletal elements associated with the flagellar/ciliary apparatus in protists

    R. A. Andersen;D. J. S. Barr;D. H. Lynn;M. Melkonian

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Lundholm
Nina Lundholm University of Copenhagen
Hae Jin Jeong
Hae Jin Jeong Seoul National University
Karin Rengefors
Karin Rengefors Lund University
Urban Tillmann
Urban Tillmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Alastair G. B. Simpson
Alastair G. B. Simpson Dalhousie University
Denis H. Lynn
Denis H. Lynn University of British Columbia
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff University of Tasmania
Wayne W. Carmichael
Wayne W. Carmichael Wright State University
Allan Cembella
Allan Cembella Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter Ulvskov
Peter Ulvskov University of Copenhagen

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