New insights into the structure and function of the prokaryotic communities colonizing plastic debris collected in King George Island (Antarctica): preliminary observations from two plastic fragments

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

(2021) Jingguang Cheng et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Thirty years of marine debris in the Southern Ocean: Annual surveys of two island shores in the Scotia Sea

(2020) Claire M. Waluda et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

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

(2020) Gabriella Caruso   Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus

(2020) Elisa Bergami et al.   Biology Letters

Marine hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria breakdown poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)

(2020) R. Denaro et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization

(2020) Robyn J. Wright et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Diversity of Cultivable Microbes From Soil of the Fildes Peninsula, Antarctica, and Their Potential Application

(2020) Bailin Cong et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Lack of long-term acclimation in Antarctic encrusting species suggests vulnerability to warming

(2019) Melody S. Clark et al.   Nature Communications

Shotgun Metagenomics Reveals the Benthic Microbial Community Response to Plastic and Bioplastic in a Coastal Marine Environment

(2019) Lee J. Pinnell et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microplastics as vectors of contaminants

(2019) Gabriella Caruso   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Selective bacterial colonization processes on polyethylene waste samples in an abandoned landfill site

(2019) Edoardo Puglisi et al.   Scientific Reports

The plastisphere in marine ecosystem hosts potential specific microbial degraders including Alcanivorax borkumensis as a key player for the low-density polyethylene degradation

(2019) Alice Delacuvellerie et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Microplastics in ballast water as an emerging source and vector for harmful chemicals, antibiotics, metals, bacterial pathogens and HAB species: A potential risk to the marine environment and human health

(2019) Ravidas Krishna Naik et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Degradation of plastics and plastic-degrading bacteria in cold marine habitats

(2018) Aneta K. Urbanek et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2018) C. Dussud et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems

(2018) Maria Arias-Andres et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in marine sediments near Rothera Research Station, Antarctica

(2018) Sarah Reed et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming

(2018) Ceridwen I. Fraser et al.   Nature Climate Change

Episodic records of jellyfish ingestion of plastic items reveal a novel pathway for trophic transference of marine litter

(2018) A. Macali et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of polystyrene nanoparticles on the microbiota and functional diversity of enzymes in soil

(2018) T. T. Awet et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Impacts of Microplastics on the Soil Biophysical Environment

(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of microplastics on trophic parameters, abundance and metabolic activities of seawater and fish gut bacteria in mesocosm conditions

(2018) Gabriella Caruso et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Do plastics serve as a possible vector for the spread of antibiotic resistance? First insights from bacteria associated to a polystyrene piece from King George Island (Antarctica)

(2018) Pasqualina Laganà et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Incidence and identification of microfibers in ocean waters in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica

(2018) Theresinha Monteiro Absher et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

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

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

Distinct community structure and microbial functions of biofilms colonizing microplastics

(2018) Lingzhan Miao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Microplastics in the sediments of Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica)

(2017) Cristina Munari et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the Southern Ocean

(2017) Atsuhiko Isobe et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Diversity structure of culturable bacteria isolated from the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica): A phylogenetic analysis perspective

(2017) Gerardo González-Rocha et al.   PLoS One

Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research

(2017) Catherine L. Waller et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plastics in the North Atlantic garbage patch: A boat-microbe for hitchhikers and plastic degraders

(2017) Didier Debroas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Isolation of Uncultured Bacteria from Antarctica Using Long Incubation Periods and Low Nutritional Media

(2017) Andre A. Pulschen et al.   Frontiers in 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

Phylogenetic diversity of culturable bacteria in surface seawater from the Drake Passage, Antarctica

(2016) Zhao Li et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY

Microbial hitchhikers on marine plastic debris: Human exposure risks at bathing waters and beach environments

(2016) Anisha Keswani et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Bioprospecting for extracellular enzymes from culturable Actinobacteria from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

(2016) Claudio Lamilla et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Jessica A. Bryant et al.   mSystems

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

(2016) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   PLoS One

Microbial assemblages for environmental quality assessment: Knowledge, gaps and usefulness in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

(2015) Gabriella Caruso et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

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

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

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

Diversity and structure of soil bacterial communities in the Fildes Region (maritime Antarctica) as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing

(2015) Neng Fei Wang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Extracellular enzyme kinetics scale with resource availability

(2014) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2014) Jesse P Harrison et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Bacterial responses to fluctuations and extremes in temperature and brine salinity at the surface of Arctic winter sea ice

(2014) Marcela Ewert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Molecular Techniques Revealed Highly Diverse Microbial Communities in Natural Marine Biofilms on Polystyrene Dishes for Invertebrate Larval Settlement

(2014) On On Lee et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Connection between the vibrational dynamics and the cross-linking properties in cyclodextrins-based polymers

(2013) Vincenza Crupi et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Culturable bacteria community development in postglacial soils of Ecology Glacier, King George Island, Antarctica

(2012) Marek K. Zdanowski et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Interactions Between Microorganisms and Marine Microplastics: A Call for Research

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

Culture-independent and -dependent methods to investigate the diversity of planktonic bacteria in the northern Bering Sea

(2011) Yinxin Zeng et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Extracellular hydrolase enzyme production by soil fungi from King George Island, Antarctica

(2011) Abiramy Krishnan et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Biotechnological uses of enzymes from psychrophiles

(2011) R. Cavicchioli et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Leucine Aminopeptidase, β-Glucosidase and Alkaline Phosphatase Activity Rates and Their Significance in Nutrient Cycles in Some Coastal Mediterranean Sites

(2010) Gabriella Caruso   Marine Drugs

Macroplastics at sea around Antarctica

(2010) David K.A. Barnes et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

(2010) Rosa Margesin et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

(2009) P. G. Ryan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

(2008) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Recovery and quantification of bacterial cells associated with streambed sediments

(2008) Stefano Amalfitano et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS