Relative Influence of Plastic Debris Size and Shape, Chemical Composition and Phytoplankton-Bacteria Interactions in Driving Seawater Plastisphere Abundance, Diversity and Activity

Microbial community profiles grown on 1020 carbon steel surfaces in seawater-isolated microcosm

(2020) Luciano Procópio   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Marine Life Cycle: A Polluted Terra Incognita Is Unveiled

(2020) Jean-François Ghiglione et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecology of the plastisphere

(2020) Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Colonization in Marine Environments: Overview of Current Knowledge and Emerging Research Topics

(2020) Gabriella Caruso   Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Major Role of Surrounding Environment in Shaping Biofilm Community Composition on Marine Plastic Debris

(2020) Marco Basili et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

The Eukaryotic Life on Microplastics in Brackish Ecosystems

(2019) Marie Therese Kettner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Influence of physicochemical surface properties on the adhesion of bacteria onto four types of plastics

(2019) Li Cai et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic food web, from primary producer to human: A review

(2019) Wenfeng Wang et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Microbial Ecotoxicology of Marine Plastic Debris: A Review on Colonization and Biodegradation by the “Plastisphere”

(2019) Justine Jacquin et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Short-term succession of marine microbial fouling communities and the identification of primary and secondary colonizers

(2019) Raeid M. M. Abed et al.   BIOFOULING

Sources, transport, and accumulation of different types of plastic litter in aquatic environments: A review study

(2019) A.E. Schwarz et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The composition of bacterial communities associated with plastic biofilms differs between different polymers and stages of biofilm succession

(2019) Maria Pinto et al.   PLoS One

Spatial structure in the “Plastisphere”: Molecular resources for imaging microscopic communities on plastic marine debris

(2019) Cathleen Schlundt et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Evidence for selective bacterial community structuring on microplastics

(2018) Martin Ogonowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of niche partitioning among bacteria living on plastics, organic particles and surrounding seawaters

(2018) C. Dussud et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size

(2018) Laura Frère et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Editorial: Metabolic Interactions Between Bacteria and Phytoplankton

(2018) Xavier Mayali   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Communities of Diatoms Display Strong Conservation Across Strains and Time

(2018) Gregory Behringer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Environmental Factors Support the Formation of Specific Bacterial Assemblages on Microplastics

(2018) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Colonization of Non-biodegradable and Biodegradable Plastics by Marine Microorganisms

(2018) Claire Dussud et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biodegradability standards for carrier bags and plastic films in aquatic environments: a critical review

(2018) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Rhythmicity of coastal marine picoeukaryotes, bacteria and archaea despite irregular environmental perturbations

(2018) Stefan Lambert et al.   ISME Journal

Rapid aggregation of biofilm-covered microplastics with marine biogenic particles

(2018) Jan Michels et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mature biofilm communities on synthetic polymers in seawater - Specific or general?

(2018) Inga V. Kirstein et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Bacterial Epibiotic Communities of Ubiquitous and Abundant Marine Diatoms Are Distinct in Short- and Long-Term Associations

(2018) Klervi Crenn et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Temporal Dynamics of Bacterial and Fungal Colonization on Plastic Debris in the North Sea

(2017) Caroline De Tender et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ups and Downs in the Ocean: Effects of Biofouling on Vertical Transport of Microplastics

(2017) Merel Kooi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Phylogenomics of Rhodobacteraceae reveals evolutionary adaptation to marine and non-marine habitats

(2017) Meinhard Simon et al.   ISME Journal

Abiotic and biotic environmental degradation of the bioplastic polymer poly(lactic acid): A review

(2017) Mehlika Karamanlioglu et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Impacts of Biofilm Formation on the Fate and Potential Effects of Microplastic in the Aquatic Environment

(2017) Christoph D. Rummel et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Open-ocean convection process: A driver of the winter nutrient supply and the spring phytoplankton distribution in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

(2017) Tatiana Severin et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton–bacteria relationships

(2017) Justin R. Seymour et al.   Nature Microbiology

Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters

(2017) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

When riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) meets labile DOM in coastal waters: changes in bacterial community activity and composition

(2016) Marine Blanchet et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Dangerous hitchhikers? Evidence for potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. on microplastic particles

(2016) Inga V. Kirstein et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

On some physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles in marine environment

(2016) I. Chubarenko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Sinking rates of microplastics and potential implications of their alteration by physical, biological, and chemical factors

(2016) Nicole Kowalski et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microfouling communities from pelagic and benthic marine plastic debris sampled across Mediterranean coastal waters

(2016) Montserrat Demestre et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

Reconstructing metabolic pathways of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

(2016) Nina Dombrowski et al.   Nature Microbiology

Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre

(2016) Jessica A. Bryant et al.   mSystems

Marine microplastic-associated biofilms – a review

(2015) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Environmental Chemistry

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

(2015) Alma E. Parada et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The biogeography of the Plastisphere: implications for policy

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

Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates

(2015) Marc Long et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

Microbial Surface Colonization and Biofilm Development in Marine Environments

(2015) Hongyue Dang et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

PhytoREF: a reference database of the plastidial 16S rRNA gene of photosynthetic eukaryotes with curated taxonomy

(2015) Johan Decelle et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples

(2015) Amy L. Lusher et al.   Scientific Reports

Phycosphere bacterial diversity in green algae reveals an apparent similarity across habitats

(2015) Rishiram Ramanan et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea

(2015) Andrés Cózar et al.   PLoS One

An annual survey of bacterial production, respiration and ectoenzyme activity in coastal NW Mediterranean waters: temperature and resource controls

(2014) B. Céa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluation and optimization of nucleic acid extraction methods for the molecular analysis of bacterial communities associated with corroded carbon steel

(2012) Florence Marty et al.   BIOFOULING

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) species, domoic acid and amnesic shellfish poisoning: revisiting previous paradigms

(2012) Aurélie Lelong et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Comparison of Growth Rates of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria and Other Bacterioplankton Groups in Coastal Mediterranean Waters

(2011) Isabel Ferrera et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The role of conditioning film formation and surface chemical changes on Xylella fastidiosa adhesion and biofilm evolution

(2011) Gabriela S. Lorite et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Activity of abundant and rare bacteria in a coastal ocean

(2011) B. J. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biofilms and Marine Invertebrate Larvae: What Bacteria Produce That Larvae Use to Choose Settlement Sites

(2010) Michael G. Hadfield   Annual Review of Marine Science

Review Paper: Absorbable Polymeric Surgical Sutures: Chemistry, Production, Properties, Biodegradability, and Performance

(2010) Chennakkattu Krishna Sadasivan Pillai et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS

Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends

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

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nutrient effects on intertidal community: from bacteria to invertebrates

(2007) JMY Chiu et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES