A scientific research paper by local and overseas researchers on a new genus and species of cyanobacteria – the most primitive photosynthetic micro-organisms – has just been published in the European Journal of Phycology, one of the leading journals on the subject.
The paper is co-authored by Gabrielle Zammit, Daniela Billi and Patrizia Albertano. Dr Zammit, a postdoctoral researcher and the main author of the paper, recently joined the team of researchers at the University’s Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, led by Alex Felice.
The paper is entitled The Subaerophytic Cyanobacterium Oculatella Subterranea (Oscillatoriales, Cyanophyceae) gen. et sp. nov: a Cytomorphological and Molecular Description.
Other new genera and species of cyanobacteria and microalgae are being described from a genetic and metabolic aspect.