Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris

Low-Volatility Model Demonstrates Humidity Affects Environmental Toxin Deposition on Plastics at a Molecular Level

(2016) Jeanne M. Hankett et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Shosuke Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

The biogeography of the Plastisphere: implications for policy

(2015) Linda A Amaral-Zettler et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

An Imaging Mass Spectrometry Study on the Formation of Conditioning Films and Biofilms in the Subsurface (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, SE Sweden)

(2015) Tim Leefmann et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Biofilm and Diatom Succession on Polyethylene (PE) and Biodegradable Plastic Bags in Two Marine Habitats: Early Signs of Degradation in the Pelagic and Benthic Zone?

(2015) Andreas Eich et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Differences in Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in a Temperate Coastal Lagoon during Summer, Revealed via High-Throughput 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

(2014) Vani Mohit et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid bacterial colonization of low-density polyethylene microplastics in coastal sediment microcosms

(2014) Jesse P Harrison et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of Polyethylene Biodegradation by Bacterial Strains from the Guts of Plastic-Eating Waxworms

(2014) Jun Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastic is an Abundant and Distinct Microbial Habitat in an Urban River

(2014) Amanda McCormick et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Comparison of the distribution and degradation of plastic debris along shorelines of the Great Lakes, North America

(2014) Maciej Zbyszewski et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake

(2014) Christopher M. Free et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Freshwater Ecosystems: Distribution and Microbial Interactions

(2014) Timothy Hoellein et al.   PLoS One

Millimeter-Sized Marine Plastics: A New Pelagic Habitat for Microorganisms and Invertebrates

(2014) Julia Reisser et al.   PLoS One

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

(2014) Christopher K. Pham et al.   PLoS One

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In situ environment rather than substrate type dictates microbial community structure of biofilms in a cold seep system

(2014) On On Lee et al.   Scientific Reports

Generalist hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial communities in the oil-polluted water column of the North Sea

(2014) Panagiota-Myrsini Chronopoulou et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion decreases energy reserves in marine worms

(2013) Stephanie L. Wright et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing?

(2013) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web

(2013) Outi Setälä et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plastic in North Sea Fish

(2013) Edwin M. Foekema et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Succession of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

(2013) Eric A. Dubinsky et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris

(2013) Erik R. Zettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Interactions of bacteria with diatoms: influence on natural marine biofilms

(2013) Lidita Khandeparker et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

The plastic-associated microorganisms of the North Pacific Gyre

(2013) Henry S. Carson et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes

(2013) Marcus Eriksen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Diversity and Abundance of the Bacterial Community of the Red Macroalga Porphyra umbilicalis: Did Bacterial Farmers Produce Macroalgae?

(2013) Lilibeth N. Miranda et al.   PLoS One

The Ecology of Microbial Communities Associated with Macrocystis pyrifera

(2013) Vanessa K. Michelou et al.   PLoS One

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress

(2013) Chelsea M. Rochman et al.   Scientific Reports

Taxonomic composition of the particle-attached and free-living bacterial assemblages in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea analyzed by pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA

(2013) Bibiana G. Crespo et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Pioneer marine biofilms on artificial surfaces including antifouling coatings immersed in two contrasting French Mediterranean coast sites

(2012) Jean-François Briand et al.   BIOFOULING

Global distribution and diversity of marine Verrucomicrobia

(2012) Sara Freitas et al.   ISME Journal

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria

(2012) S. A. Amin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomes of surface isolates of Alteromonas macleodii: the life of a widespread marine opportunistic copiotroph

(2012) Mario López-Pérez et al.   Scientific Reports

Genome sequence of the orange-pigmented seawater bacterium Owenweeksia hongkongensis type strain (UST20020801T)

(2012) Thomas Riedel et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi

(2011) Jonathan R. Russell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of substrate type on bacterial community composition in biofilms from the Great Barrier Reef

(2011) Verena Witt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Biogeography and phylogenetic diversity of a cluster of exclusively marine myxobacteria

(2011) Thorsten Brinkhoff et al.   ISME Journal

Protistan microbial observatory in the Cariaco Basin, Caribbean. I. Pyrosequencing vs Sanger insights into species richness

(2011) Virginia Edgcomb et al.   ISME Journal

Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches

(2011) Hisashi Hirai et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Interactions Between Microorganisms and Marine Microplastics: A Call for Research

(2011) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY JOURNAL

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

(2011) Nicola Segata et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Ecogenomics and genome landscapes of marine Pseudoalteromonas phage H105/1

(2010) Melissa Beth Duhaime et al.   ISME Journal

Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris

(2010) Delphine Lobelle et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

(2010) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antagonistic interactions among coral-associated bacteria

(2009) Krystal L. Rypien et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biofouling and stability of synthetic polymers in sea water

(2009) Trishul Artham et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Our plastic age

(2009) R. C. Thompson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

(2009) E. L. Teuten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A critical analysis of the biological impacts of plasticizers on wildlife

(2009) J. Oehlmann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate Change and the Potential Spreading of Marine Mucilage and Microbial Pathogens in the Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Roberto Danovaro et al.   PLoS One

Identification and Ecophysiological Characterization of Epiphytic Protein-Hydrolyzing Saprospiraceae ("Candidatus Epiflobacter" spp.) in Activated Sludge

(2008) Y. Xia et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sphingobacterium kitahiroshimense sp. nov., isolated from soil

(2008) H. Matsuyama et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Pet Waste Management by Chemical Recycling: A Review

(2008) Vijaykumar Sinha et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT