You can find a lot of such works and here is an example of a PLOS One article dealing with dinoflagellates using (1) collection cultures, (2) whole marine sample and most essential (3) single cells isolated from both planktonic and benthic samples:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981561/

Minute means, How much minute? whether phyto or zoo -plankton.

Whatever it is you can find some clues by browsing for your organisms in "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov".