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This work was co-financed by the Minister of Science under the “Regional Excellence Initiative” Program (2024–2027). Claude Lemieux and Monique Turmel were supported by grant RGPIN-2017-04506 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). We also acknowledge support from the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division.

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Description of Navicula vanseea sp. nov. (Naviculales, Naviculaceae), a new species of diatom from the highly alkaline Lake Van (Republic of Türkiye) with complete characterisation of its organellar genomes and multigene phylogeny

Publicated to:Phytokeys. 241 (241): 27-48 - 2024-04-08 241(241), DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.241.118903

Authors: Yilmaz, Elif; Mann, David G; Gastineau, Romain; Trobajo, Rosa; Solak, Cueneyt Nadir; Gorecka, Ewa; Turmel, Monique; Lemieux, Claude; Ertorun, Nesil; Witkowski, Andrzej

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Dumlupinar Univ, Fac Sci & Art, Dept Biol - Author
Eskisehir Tech Univ, Sci Fac, Dept Biol - Author
Inst Food & Agr Res & Technol IRTA, Marine & Continental Waters, Crta Poble Nou Km 5-5, La Rapita 43540 - Author
Royal Bot Garden Edinburgh - Author
Univ Laval, Inst Biol Integrat & Syst, Dept Biochim Microbiol & Bioinformat, Quebec City - Author
Univ Szczecin, Inst Marine & Environm Sci, Mickiewicza 16A - Author
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Abstract

The current article describes Navicula vanseea sp. nov. , a new species of diatom from Lake Van, a highly alkaline lake in Eastern Anatolia (T & uuml;rkiye). The description is based on light and scanning electron microscopy performed on two monoclonal cultures. The complete nuclear rRNA clusters and plastid genomes have been sequenced for these two strains and the complete mitogenome for one of them. The plastome of both strains shows the probable loss of a functional ycf35 gene. They also exhibit two IB4 group I introns in their rrl , each encoding for a putative LAGLIDADG homing endonuclease, with the first L1917 IB4 intron reported amongst diatoms. The Maximum Likelihood phylogeny inferred from a concatenated alignment of 18S , rbcL and psbC distinguish- es N. vanseea sp. nov. from the morphologically similar species Navicula cincta and Navicula microdigitoradiata .

Keywords
BacillariophytaEvolutionGenesGroup i intronLaglidadgMitogenomeNaviculaceaePlastomePseudogeneSoda lakeTool

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Phytokeys due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Miscellaneous). Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q3 for the agency WoS (JCR) in the category Plant Sciences.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-05-25:

  • Google Scholar: 4
  • WoS: 5
  • Scopus: 4
  • Europe PMC: 2
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-25:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 10.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 10 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.75.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12327/2934
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Canada; Poland; Turkey; United Kingdom.