近5年代表性论文与专著（列10项）

(1) Zhao, F.,  Filker, S.,  Wang, C.,  Xu K.*. 2021. Bathymetric gradient shapes the community composition rather than the species richness of deep-sea benthic ciliates. Science of the Total Environment, 755, 142623.

(2) Zhao, F., Filker, S., Xu, K.*, Huang, P. & Zheng, S. 2020. Microeukaryote communities exhibit phyla-specific distance-decay patterns and an intimate link between sea water and sediment habitats in the Western Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 160, 103279.

(3) Li, Y., Zhan, Z. & Xu, K.* 2020. Morphology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of deep-sea purple gorgonians (Octocorallia: Victorgorgiidae) from seamounts in the tropical Western Pacific, with description of three new species. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 701.

(4) Xu, Y., Zhan, Z. & Xu, K.* Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three new deep-sea species of Chrysogorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) from seamounts in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean. PeeJ, 8, e8832.

(5) Chen, X., Li, J. & Xu K.* 2020. Multigene-based phylogeny analyses of the controversial family Condylostomatidae (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea). Zoologica Scripta, 49: 250–264.

(6) Wu X., Zhan, Z., & Xu, K.* 2019. Two new and two rarely known species of Branchinotogluma (Annelida: Polynoidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Manus Back-Arc basin, with remarks on the diversity and biogeography of vent polynoids. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 149, 103051.

(7) Zhao, F., Filker, S., Xu, K.*, Li, J., Zhou, T. & Huang, P. 2019. Effects of intragenomic polymorphism in the SSU rRNA gene on estimating marine microeukaryotic diversity: A test for ciliates using single-cell high-throughput DNA sequencing. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods. 17, 533–543

(8) Zhan, Z., Li, J., & Xu, K.* 2019. Ciliate environmental diversity can be underestimated by the V4 region of SSU rDNA: insights from species delimitation and multilocus phylogeny of Pseudokeronopsis (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea). Microorganisms, 7, 493.

(9) Li, Y., Sun, Z., Xu, K.*, Suzuki, H., Nagumo, T., & Tanaka, J. 2019. Three new species of Fallacia from intertidal sediments in Japan. Diatom Research, 34(2), 75–83.

(10) Shi, B. & Xu, K.* 2018. Morphological and molecular characterizations of Africanema multipapillatum sp. nov. (Nematoda, Enoplida) in intertidal sediment from the East China Sea. Marine Biodiversity, 48: 281–288.