Keyword

protists

Description: Protists are diverse eukaryotic organisms that are not classified as animals, plants, or fungi, studied in microbiology and evolutionary biology.

Primary topic: Protist diversity and phylogeny (33%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q10892

OpenAlex ID: keywords/protists

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

2012 · Laure Guillou, Dipankar Bachar, et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,370

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Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

2015 · Colomban de Vargas, Stéphane Audic, et al. · Science · 2,008

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Biology of microorganisms

1970 · Thomkas D. Brock · 1,900

Global Dispersal of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryote Species

2002 · Bland J. Finlay · Science · 1,827

Mitochondrial Evolution

1999 · Michael W. Gray, Gertraud Burger, et al. · Science · 1,720

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

2012 · Sina M. Adl, Alastair G. B. Simpson, et al. · Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology · 1,678

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Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

2018 · Sina M. Adl, David Bass, et al. · Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology · 1,401

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The Promise of DNA Barcoding for Taxonomy

2005 · Paul D. N. Hebert, T. Ryan Gregory · Systematic Biology · 1,335

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Fungal Community Analysis by Large-Scale Sequencing of Environmental Samples

2005 · Heath E. O'Brien, Jeri Lynn Parrent, et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 953

Structure and function of the soil microbial community in a long-term fertilizer experiment

2003 · P Marschner · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 944

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

2015 · Alexandra Z. Worden, Michael J. Follows, et al. · Science · 930

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

2011 · Laura Wegener Parfrey, Daniel J. G. Lahr, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 907

Endoreplication Cell Cycles

2001 · Bruce A. Edgar, Terry L. Orr-Weaver · Cell · 846

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The predominance of quarter‐power scaling in biology

2004 · V. M. Savage, J. F. Gillooly, et al. · Functional Ecology · 713

Lignocellulose degradation mechanisms across the Tree of Life

2015 · Simon M Cragg, Gregg T Beckham, et al. · Current Opinion in Chemical Biology · 668

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On the path to reference genomes for all biodiversity: lessons learned and laboratory protocols created in the Sanger Tree of Life core laboratory over the first 2000 species

2025 · Caroline Howard, Amy Denton, et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 665

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Reactive oxygen species and development in microbial eukaryotes

2005 · Jesús Aguirre, Mauricio Ríos-Momberg, et al. · Trends in Microbiology · 661

Diversification and Extinction in the History of Life

1995 · M. J. Benton · Science · 654

The Ecology and Biogeography of Microorganisms on Plant Surfaces

2000 · John H. Andrews, Robin F. Harris · Annual Review of Phytopathology · 648

The timing of eukaryotic evolution: Does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils?

2004 · Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, Elizabeth A. Snell, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 635

Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages

2011 · Joshua A Steele, Peter D Countway, et al. · The ISME Journal · 634

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Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversity

2004 · Jessica L. Green, Andrew J. Holmes, et al. · Nature · 625

The tree of eukaryotes

2005 · Patrick J. Keeling, Gertraud Burger, et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 579

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

2012 · Jan Pawlowski, Stéphane Audic, et al. · PLoS Biology · 550

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On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

2008 · Shuhai Xiao, Marc Laflamme · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 543

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Citation count: 157,200