- Wikipedia: Eukaryote
Organisms consisting of one or more eukaryotic cells; such cells contain membrane-bound nuclei, as well as organelles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote
- Biology Project: Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, & Viruses Tutorial
Online exercise designed to introduce readers to the kinds of cells that make up all living systems, and to contrast cells with viruses.
www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/main.html
- Introduction to the Eukaryota
Group that includes the organisms that most people are most familiar with: all animals, plants, fungi, and protists.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/eukaryota.html
- Endosymbiosis and the Origin of Eukaryotes
Discusses the evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotes.
users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/Endosymbiosis.html
- Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments
Covers organisms that actively grow in extreme environments, not just survive through some form of encystment.
www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/extreme.html
- Malaria, Algae, Amoeba and You: Unravelling Eukaryotic Relationships
Article addressing the history of eukaryotic phylogeny.
www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/dacks.html
- Tree of Life: Eukaryotes
Domain of the organisms with nucleated cells. Includes information about the Animal, Plant, Fungus, and various Protista Kingdoms.
tolweb.org/tree?group=eukaryotes
- Origin of Eukaryotes
Looks at what steps would have led from prokaryotes to eukaryotes.
www.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc151/Eukaryotes/Eukaryotes.html
- Kingdom's Progress, A: Archezoa and the Origin of Eukaryotes
(PDF)
Paper showing that mitochondrial symbiosis now appears to predate all archezoa and perhaps all presently known eukaryotes.
www.botany.ubc.ca/keeling/PDF/98King.pdf
- Changing Perspectives on the Origin of Eukaryotes
Paper examining the discoveries that have challenged the traditional stepwise model of the evolution of eukaryotes.
cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ecology/changing_perspectives_on_the_ori.htm
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