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Last published 2025
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Teofil Nakov

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High Impact

Postdoctoral researcher

Also affiliated: Universidad de Costa Rica (2025); Institute of public health of Republic of Macedonia (2006); Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (2007); The University of Texas at Austin (2008–2014)

Postdoc Researcher

20 h-index 65 pubs 1,536 cited

  • Diatoms
  • Phylogeny
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Biological Evolution
  • Ecosystem
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Genome, Plastid
  • Salinity
  • Biodiversity
  • Seawater
  • Phytoplankton
  • Genomics
  • Transcriptome
  • Gene Duplication
  • Adaptation, Physiological

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Teofil Nakov's research investigates the evolutionary adaptations of diatoms, a group of phytoplankton, to diverse environmental conditions. His work utilizes genomic and phylogenomic approaches to understand the genetic basis of local adaptation in these organisms. Nakov has published research on how genome-wide changes in metabolic processes contribute to adaptation along complex environmental gradients, such as salinity clines in marine environments like the Baltic Sea.

His publications also explore the spread of invasive species, specifically focusing on the introduction and dissemination of freshwater diatoms in the United States. Nakov's research has been supported by grants and he collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Andrew J. Alverson, Elizabeth C. Ruck, and Eveline Pinseel. He maintains an active lab website to disseminate his work. With an h-index of 20 and over 1,500 citations across 65 publications, Nakov is recognized as a highly cited researcher.

Metrics

  • h-index: 20
  • Publications: 65
  • Citations: 1,536

Selected Publications

  • Genome‐Wide Adaptation to a Complex Environmental Gradient in a Keystone Phytoplankton Species (2025)
    Molecular Ecology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Local adaptation of a marine diatom is governed by genome-wide changes in diverse metabolic processes (2023)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Local adaptation of a marine diatom is governed by genome-wide changes in diverse metabolic processes (2023)
    Åbo Akademi University Research Portal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline (2022)
    The ISME Journal 38 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline (2022)
    Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute) 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Genotype-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline (2021)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • tinselR—an R Shiny Application for Annotating Phylogenetic Trees (2021)
    Microbiology Resource Announcements DOI OpenAlex
  • Microbial biogeography through the lens of exotic species: the recent introduction and spread of the freshwater diatom Discostella asterocostata in the United States (2021)
    Biological Invasions 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Transcriptional Response of Osmolyte Synthetic Pathways and Membrane Transporters in a Euryhaline Diatom During Long‐term Acclimation to a Salinity Gradient (2020)
    Journal of Phycology 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Hot and sick? Impacts of warming and a parasite on the dominant zooplankter of Lake Baikal (2020)
    Limnology and Oceanography 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Data and code for Freshwater diatoms diversify and turn over faster than marine in both planktonic and benthic habitats (2019)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Data and code for Freshwater diatoms diversify and turn over faster than marine in both planktonic and benthic habitats (2019)
    Figshare DOI OpenAlex
  • Diatoms diversify and turn over faster in freshwater than marine environments* (2019)
    Evolution 107 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Hot and sick: impacts of warming and oomycete parasite infection on endemic dominant zooplankter of Lake Baikal (2019)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • A single loss of photosynthesis in the diatom order Bacillariales (Bacillariophyta) (2019)
    American Journal of Botany 20 citations DOI OpenAlex

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