November 29, 2023
The results of the morphological analyses were presented at the 2nd Croatian Microscopy Symposium in Split (November 24-25, 2023). In this study, the application of STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) in phytoplankton taxonomy is presented. STEM combines some of the advantages of SEM and TEM methods for easier observation of ultrafine structural features of phytoplankton frustules. In this study, STEM is used to image and morphologically identify the marine diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia from the central and southern Adriatic Sea using the Tescan FE-SEM /STEM MIRA3 microscope at nanoscale resolution.