The scientists decided to check what kind of microalgae they had on their hands and sent a sample to the country's leading microbiological archives. And that's when the real sensation began — it turned out that this was not Nanohloropsis at all, but a new species of microalgae previously unknown to science. Moreover, it may even be a new genus of green algae, a member of the scientific council of the ANO Research Institute of Functional Nutrition shared with life.ru.
Now the team is conducting a detailed study of this discovery to give the new algae a name and understand what makes them unique.
Earlier, scientists from the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a record number of toxic microalgae in the Amur Bay, which make shellfish and other seafood dangerous to eat.