| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Diatoms and the Ocean Carbon Cycle | Protist | 1999 | 494 |
| 2 | Reproductive Isolation among Sympatric Cryptic Species in Marine Diatoms | Protist | 2007 | 416 |
| 3 | DNA Barcoding of Blastocystis | Protist | 2006 | 348 |
| 4 | Genetic Diversity of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Genus Symbiodinium | Protist | 2005 | 338 |
| 5 | Genetic Diversity of Blastocystis in Livestock and Zoo Animals | Protist | 2013 | 290 |
| 6 | Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies | Protist | 2016 | 290 |
| 7 | Formal Revision of the Alexandrium tamarense Species Complex (Dinophyceae) Taxonomy: The Introduction of Five Species with Emphasis on Molecular-based (rDNA) Classification | Protist | 2014 | 283 |
| 8 | A Plastid in the Making: Evidence for a Second Primary Endosymbiosis | Protist | 2005 | 282 |
| 9 | An Assessment of Potential Diatom “Barcode” Genes (cox1, rbcL, 18S and ITS rDNA) and their Effectiveness in Determining Relationships in Sellaphora (Bacillariophyta) | Protist | 2007 | 277 |
| 10 | Protist Diversity: Estimates of the Near-Imponderable | Protist | 1999 | 274 |
| 11 | Phylogeny and Taxonomic Revision of Plastid-Containing Euglenophytes based on SSU rDNA Sequence Comparisons and Synapomorphic Signatures in the SSU rRNA Secondary Structure | Protist | 2003 | 267 |
| 12 | An Engineered Streptomyces hygroscopicus aph 7″ Gene Mediates Dominant Resistance against Hygromycin B in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Protist | 2002 | 262 |
| 13 | Extremely High Copy Numbers and Polymorphisms of the rDNA Operon Estimated from Single Cell Analysis of Oligotrich and Peritrich Ciliates | Protist | 2013 | 259 |
| 14 | Phylogeny and Classification of Phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa) | Protist | 2003 | 249 |
| 15 | The Regulation of Carbon and Nutrient Assimilation in Diatoms is Significantly Different from Green Algae | Protist | 2006 | 239 |
| 16 | Diversity of Picoplanktonic Prasinophytes Assessed by Direct Nuclear SSU rDNA Sequencing of Environmental Samples and Novel Isolates Retrieved from Oceanic and Coastal Marine Ecosystems | Protist | 2004 | 235 |
| 17 | Global Diversity and Biogeography of Skeletonema Species (Bacillariophyta) | Protist | 2008 | 231 |
| 18 | Molecular Phylogeny and Taxonomic Revision of (Chlorophyta). I. Emendation of Ehrenberg and Gobi, and Description of gen. nov. and gen. nov. | Protist | 2001 | 228 |
| 19 | Cosmopolitan Metapopulations of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryotes | Protist | 2004 | 225 |
| 20 | The Significance of a Coincidence between Evolutionary Landmarks Found in Mating Affinity and a DNA Sequence | Protist | 2000 | 213 |
| 21 | A Revised Classification of Naked Lobose Amoebae (Amoebozoa: Lobosa) | Protist | 2011 | 211 |
| 22 | The Environmental Clade LKM11 and Rozella Form the Deepest Branching Clade of Fungi | Protist | 2010 | 197 |
| 23 | A Multiple PCR-primer Approach to Access the Microeukaryotic Diversity in Environmental Samples | Protist | 2006 | 186 |
| 24 | Barcoding Diatoms: Exploring Alternatives to COI-5P | Protist | 2011 | 165 |
| 25 | Molecular Phylogeny and Classification of the Mamiellophyceae class. nov. (Chlorophyta) based on Sequence Comparisons of the Nuclear- and Plastid-encoded rRNA Operons | Protist | 2010 | 155 |
| 26 | Dinoflagellate Expressed Sequence Tag Data Indicate Massive Transfer of Chloroplast Genes to the Nuclear Genome | Protist | 2004 | 154 |
| 27 | Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Astounding Genetic Diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., The Dominant Gliding Zooflagellates in Soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa) | Protist | 2009 | 150 |
| 28 | Morphology, Ultrastructure and Life Cycle of Vitrella brassicaformis n. sp., n. gen., a Novel Chromerid from the Great Barrier Reef | Protist | 2012 | 148 |
| 29 | Hypothesis: The Rate and Scale of Dispersal of Freshwater Diatom Species is a Function of their Global Abundance | Protist | 2002 | 146 |
| 30 | Phylogeny of Novel Naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea Revised | Protist | 2009 | 146 |
| 31 | The Basal Position of Scaly Green Flagellates among the Green Algae (Chlorophyta) is Revealed by Analyses of Nuclear-Encoded SSU rRNA Sequences | Protist | 1998 | 141 |
| 32 | Genotype versus Phenotype Variability in Chlorella and Micractinium (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae) | Protist | 2006 | 137 |
| 33 | Critical Taxonomic Revision of Parabasalids with Description of one New Genus and three New Species | Protist | 2010 | 136 |
| 34 | Phylogenetic Validation of the Genera Angomonas and Strigomonas of Trypanosomatids Harboring Bacterial Endosymbionts with the Description of New Species of Trypanosomatids and of Proteobacterial Symbionts | Protist | 2011 | 136 |
| 35 | The Plastid in Plasmodium falciparum Asexual Blood Stages: a Three-Dimensional Ultrastructural Analysis | Protist | 1999 | 134 |
| 36 | Genetic Diversity and Molecular Detection of Three Toxic Dinoflagellate Genera and from French Coasts | Protist | 2002 | 132 |
| 37 | Complete Gene Map of the Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Euglenoid Flagellate Astasia longa | Protist | 2000 | 128 |
| 38 | Barcoding of Diatoms: Nuclear Encoded ITS Revisited | Protist | 2010 | 128 |
| 39 | Asymmetric Cell Division as a Route to Reduction in Cell Length and Change in Cell Morphology in Trypanosomes | Protist | 2008 | 124 |
| 40 | Enzymes for Heme Biosynthesis are Found in Both the Mitochondrion and Plastid of the Malaria Parasite | Protist | 2004 | 123 |
| 41 | Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Slime Moulds (Mycetozoa) | Protist | 2010 | 122 |
| 42 | Phylogenetic Relationships among the Cryptophyta: Analyses of Nuclear-Encoded SSU rRNA Sequences Support the Monophyly of Extant Plastid-Containing Lineages | Protist | 1998 | 121 |
| 43 | Motile Chemosensory Behaviour of Phagotrophic Protists: Mechanisms for and Efficiency in Congregating at Food Patches | Protist | 1999 | 118 |
| 44 | Seven Gene Phylogeny of Heterokonts | Protist | 2009 | 118 |
| 45 | A Repetitive Protein Essential for the Flagellum Attachment Zone Filament Structure and Function in Trypanosoma brucei | Protist | 2008 | 117 |
| 46 | Emerging Diversity within Chrysophytes, Choanoflagellates and Bicosoecids Based on Molecular Surveys | Protist | 2011 | 115 |
| 47 | Revision of the Genus Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae): a Combination of Molecular Phylogeny and Morphology Provides Insights into a Long-Hidden Dimorphism | Protist | 2003 | 114 |
| 48 | Novel Cultured Protists Identify Deep-branching Environmental DNA Clades of Cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia | Protist | 2011 | 114 |
| 49 | Protist Diversity is Different? | Protist | 2004 | 112 |
| 50 | Ecology of Testate Amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) on Peatlands in Western Russia with Special Attention to Niche Separation in Closely Related Taxa | Protist | 1999 | 110 |
