The level of organization seen in Stromatoveris and equivalent Ediacaran fossils seems to transcend protistan complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Stromatoveris - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The digestive tracts of herbivorous fishes may contain protistan and bacterial endosymbionts that aid in the digestion of the plant material. From Wordnik.com. [Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean] Reference
DNA and RNA extractions from worldwide protistan populations samples. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
This story might actually have to wait until we learn more protistan cell biology. From Wordnik.com. [Research Blogging - All Topics - English] Reference
Farmer and Habura point out that protistan evolution had begun well before then and provided the genomic diversity from which multicellular organisms arose. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
The data from the planktonic protistan biodiversity (rDNA, rRNA, transcriptomes, imaging) will allow statistical analyses of populations and ecology on the basis of the nucleotidic sequences and their genetic variability. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
A detailed understanding of protistan biology, therefore, offers scientists and lay persons alike the ability to address current attacks on evolutionary theory, and to refute the claims of ID creationists who insist on invoking supernatural explanations to account for observable phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
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