- 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. - Changing Perspectives on the Origin of Eukaryotes
- Paper examining the discoveries that have challenged the traditional stepwise model of the evolution of eukaryotes. - Endosymbiosis and the Origin of Eukaryotes
- Discusses the evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotes. - Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments
- Covers organisms that actively grow in extreme environments, not just survive through some form of encystment. - Introduction to the Eukaryota
- Group that includes the organisms that most people are most familiar with: all animals, plants, fungi, and protists. - 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. - Malaria, Algae, Amoeba and You: Unravelling Eukaryotic Relationships
- Article addressing the history of eukaryotic phylogeny. - Origin of Eukaryotes
- Looks at what steps would have led from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. - Tree of Life: Eukaryotes
- Domain of the organisms with nucleated cells. Includes information about the Animal, Plant, Fungus, and various Protista Kingdoms. - Wikipedia: Eukaryote
- Organisms consisting of one or more eukaryotic cells; such cells contain membrane-bound nuclei, as well as organelles.
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