Protist

Papers
(The median citation count of Protist is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Basic biology, ecology, and biotechnology of euglenids37
Five Groups in the Genus Allovahlkampfia and the Description of the New Species Vahlkampfia bulbosis n.sp.24
Protist Diversity Responses to Experimental N Deposition in Biological Crusts of a Semiarid Mediterranean Ecosystem23
Sterol Composition of the Peridinin-Containing Dinoflagellate Gertia stigmatica, a Member of the Kareniaceae without a Canonical Haptophyte-Derived Plastid21
Unravelling the Phylogeny of a Common Intestinal Protist: Intrageneric Diversity of Endolimax19
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of pleurostomatid ciliates from China with a description of two new species14
Editorial Board12
Improved Methods for Bulk Cultivation and Fixation of Loxodes Ciliates for Fluorescence Microscopy12
The Vampyrellid Amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)12
Introduction to the Special Issue: Bland J. Finlay: Uncovering the Unseen World of Microbes12
A novel free-living endomyxan flagellate Viscidocauda repens gen. Nov., sp. nov11
Effects of Copper and the Insecticide Cypermethrin on a Soil Ciliate (Protozoa: Ciliophora) Community10
Rimoportula Distribution, Heterovalvy and Heteropolarity in Hyalosira (Bacillariophyta: Rhabdonematales), with Revision of H. hesperia and Two New Species10
Nannostelium ampullaceum gen. et sp. nov., a tiny new member of the protosteloid amoeba of the Cavosteliida (Variosea, Amoebozoa)9
Morphogenesis of an anaerobic ciliate Heterometopus palaeformis (Kahl, 1927) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Armophorea) with notes on its morphological and molecular characterization9
Illustrating the Invisible: The Role of Drawing in the Career of Bland J. Finlay8
A Model of F-actin Organization in Granuloreticulopodia in Foraminifera: Morphogenetic and Evolutionary Implications from Novel Fluorescent and Polarised Light Observations8
Morphology and phylogeny of Prorocentrum venetum Tolomio & Cavolo (Dinophyceae)7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board7
NGS-based detection and differentiation of Entamoeba in Algerian wildlife and domestic animals7
Piercing the veil: A novel amoebozoan (Janelia veilia n. gen. n. sp.) reveals deep clades within Discosea through phylogenomics6
The Effect of pH and Salinity on the Toxicity and Growth of the Golden Alga, Prymnesium parvum6
The apparently misunderstood Didinium Gargantua of Alphonse Meunier6
The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems6
Reductitherus cryptostomus n. gen., n. sp. (Ciliophora: Armophorea: Clevelandellida), a remarkable new nyctotherid from an Australian cockroach, Parapanesthia gigantea (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae)6
Biodiversity of autotrophic euglenids based on the group specific DNA metabarcoding approach5
In vitro Evaluation the Efficacy of Some New Plant Extracts and Biocides on the Viability of Acanthamoeba castellanii5
Examining the Relationship Between the Testate Amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) and its Associated Intracellular Microalgae Using Molecular and Microscopic Methods5
Editorial Board5
Corrigendum to “Morphology and ultrastructure of marine bacterivorous bicosoecid Hirugamonas aperieos gen. et sp. nov.” [Protist 178 (2025) 126104]5
Morphology and taxonomy of a new species of a rare genus Paracolpidium (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea), P. harbinense sp. nov. from Northeast China5
Significance of the Nudiform and Tectiform Modes of Silica Deposition, Lorica Assembly and Cell Division in Choanoflagellates as Exemplified by Stephanoeca diplocostata and Enibas spp.4
When you Like Other Algae: Adglutina synurophila gen. et sp. nov. (Moewusinia, Chlorophyceae), a Clingy Green Microalga Associated with Synura Colonies4
The Extraordinarily Rare Ciliate Legendrea loyezae Fauré-Fremiet, 1908 (Haptoria, Ciliophora)4
Flagellar proteomic analysis of the brown alga Mutimo cylindricus revealed a novel calcium-binding protein abundantly localized in the anterior flagellum4
Effects of Glacial Flour on Marine Micro-plankton: Evidences from Natural Communities of Greenlandic Fjords and Experimental Studies4
Editorial Board4
Dinoflagellate chloroplasts as a model for extreme genome reduction and fragmentation in organelles – The COCOA principle for gene retention4
Re-evaluating Loricate Choanoflagellate Phylogenetics: Molecular Evidence Points to the Paraphyly of Tectiform Species4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Ras superfamily GTPases and signal transduction in Euglena gracilis3
Ciliates from the faeces of the free-ranging dromedary from Oman: Morphology and molecular phylogeny3
Protists and Society: A report on the 2024 autumn meeting of Protistology-UK, at the natural history museum, London3
Editorial Board3
Single-cell genomics revealed Candidatus Grellia alia sp. nov. as an endosymbiont of Eutreptiella sp. (Euglenophyceae)3
First record of Colpodidium caudatum (Ciliophora, Colpodidiidae) in Europe3
DNA metabarcoding reveals the impact of Cu2+ on soil cercozoan diversity3
The protist symbionts of Reticulitermes tibialis: Unexpected diversity enables a new taxonomic framework3
Protozoa in the remarkable wall charts of Leuckart and Nitsche's Zoologische Wandtaflen3
Cytoplasmic streaming of symbiotic algae in the ciliate Stentor pyriformis2
Dead reckoning of protist viability with propidium monoazide (PMA)-quantitative PCR; a case study using Neoparamoeba perurans2
25 Years of Protist2
Taxonomy of a New Parasitic Euglenid, Euglenaformis parasitica sp. nov. (Euglenales, Euglenaceae) in Ostracods and Rhabdocoels2
A New Mayorella Species Isolated from the Mariana Trench Area (Pacific Ocean)2
Editorial Board2
DNA barcodes reliably differentiate between nivicolous species of Diderma (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa) and reveal regional differences within Eurasia2
A three-genome ultraconserved element phylogeny of cryptophytes2
Bland James Finlay (March 16, 1952–December 24, 2021)2
The first record of a gregarine from the family Urosporidae (Apicomplexa: Lecudinoidea) in a bivalve mollusc, Axinopsida orbiculata1
On Saville-Kent's “a Manual of the infusoria”1
First Molecular Characterization of the Elusive Marine Protist Meteora sporadica1
External pH Variations Modify Proliferation, Erythrophagocytosis, Cytoskeleton Remodeling, and Cell Morphology of Entamoeba histolytica Trophozoites1
The protists of Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur1
New and noteworthy chrysophycean stomatocysts from the Steppe zone of South Urals (Russia) with comments on the morphological variability1
Ultrastructure of Apocolpodidium etoschense (Ciliophora) and its Systematics Enlightenment for the Class Nassophorea1
Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution1
What Drives the Assembly of Plant-associated Protist Microbiomes? Investigating the Effects of Crop Species, Soil Type and Bacterial Microbiomes1
Phylogenetic affiliation of Pedinomonas noctilucae and green Noctiluca scintillans nutritional dynamics in the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern Arabian Sea1
Editorial Board1
Editorial Board1
Meeting Report: Euglenids in the Age of Symbiogenesis: Origins, Innovations, and Prospects, November 8–11, 20211
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