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Additional Reading
Information on protists is presented in W. Foissner and David L. Hawksworth (eds.), Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution (2009); and R. Wetherbee, R.A. Andersen, and J.D. Pickett-Heaps, The Protistan Cell Surface (1994). Explorations of the place of protists in the evolution of eukaryotes include Laura A. Katz and Debashish Bhattacharya (eds.), Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes (2006); and Wolfgang Loffelhardt (ed.), Endosymbiosis (2013).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: UH Pressbooks - Biology - Characteristics of Protists. | Oct 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CUNY Pressbooks Network - General Biology OER Laboratory Manual - Protista. | Jul 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BMC Biology - Two decades taken at speed: genomics, cell biology, ecology, and evolution of protists. | Jun 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - The problem of protists. | Apr 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Concepts of Biology - Protists. | Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings of the Royal Society B - The extent of protist diversity: insights from molecular ecology of freshwater eukaryotes. | Jan 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Earlham Institute - The biodiversity �outsiders� - the protist gang. | Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Biophrsics of protist behaviou. | Aug 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - A molecular survey of protist diversity through the central Arctic Ocean (PDF). | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO-EOLSS - The Protist. | May 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CalState-Pressbooks Network - Introduction to Living Systems - Protists. | Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UEN Digital Press with Pressbooks - Protists. | Jan 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Protists. | Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Introduction to Protists. | Jul 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Protist taxonomy: an ecological perspective. | May 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Biology - Protists - Introduction. | Apr 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Protists are microbes too: a perspective. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Protists. | Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| In first paragraph, changed "muticellular" to "multicellular." | Dec 14, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - What are Protists? | Aug 16, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Easy Science For Kids - One Celled Organisms � The Protist. | Apr 04, 2016 | ||
| Article restructured and thoroughly revised and updated. | Aug 20, 2015 | ||
| Classification section replaced with discussion of the paraphyletic nature of protists. | Aug 20, 2015 | ||
| Added photos of various types of protists. | Aug 20, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised and updated. | Aug 20, 2015 | ||
| New illustration added. | Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jan 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Kimball's Biology Pages - The Protists. | Apr 25, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Kingdom Protista. | Apr 20, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - Introduction to the Eukaryota. | Jun 26, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - Introduction to the Eukaryota. | Jun 26, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |
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