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.

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