Emerging technologies for the discovery of novel diversity in cyanobacteria and algae and the elucidation of their valuable metabolites

G Zammit, MG Zammit, KG Buttigieg - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Until recently, the study of cyanobacteria and microalgae has been hampered by the need to
cultivate these organisms to gain insight into their cytomorphology, life cycle and molecular …

Ulva L. biodiversity in the central Mediterranean Sea: cryptic species and new records

AG Bartolo, G Zammit, FC Küpper - Cryptogamie, Algologie, 2022 - BioOne
Ulva L. species are problematic to identify since they have cryptic morphologies with few
distinctive features, as well as significant intraspecific variation. In this study, we report two …

What's new in marine botany of the Eastern Mediterranean?

C Katsaros, S Orfanidis, FC Küpper - Botanica Marina, 2022 - degruyter.com
This article provides a topical review of East Mediterranean phycology and seagrass
biology, with a special focus on the outcomes of the multi-year project “Brown algal …

Laurencia mediterranea sp. nov. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from the central Mediterranean Sea

AG Bartolo, G Zammit, E Kytinou, FC Küpper - Botanica Marina, 2023 - degruyter.com
The identification of macroalgal species within the Laurencia complex is challenging, due to
the presence of inconspicuous morphological characters, extensive variation in these traits …

New records of Palisada tenerrima and Hincksia mitchelliae from the Maltese Islands revealed by molecular analysis

AG Bartolo, G Zammit… - Mediterranean …, 2022 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
We report two new algal records from the Maltese islands: Hincksia mitchelliae (=
Feldmannia mitchelliae)(Phaeophyceae) and Palisada tenerrima (Rhodophyceae). The …

Molecular data and culture observations show that the microfilamentous marine alga Uronema marinum Womersley is a member of the genus Okellya Leliaert & …

R Wetherbee, TT Bringloe, F Leliaert… - Cryptogamie …, 2024 - BioOne
The marine microfilamentous green algal genus Okellya Leliaert & Rueness forms a distinct
lineage of Cladophorales Haeckel, and currently contains only a single species, Okellya …