A multi-OMIC characterisation of biodegradation and microbial community succession within the PET plastisphere

Plasticizer Degradation by Marine Bacterial Isolates: A Proteogenomic and Metabolomic Characterization

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

PICRUSt2 for prediction of metagenome functions

(2020) Gavin M. Douglas et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Opinion: We need better data about the environmental persistence of plastic goods

(2020) Collin P. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fragmentation of plastic objects in a laboratory seawater microcosm

(2020) Jan Gerritse et al.   Scientific Reports

Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization

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

Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization

(2020) Brandon C. Knott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Does the Chemodiversity of Bacterial Exometabolomes Sustain the Chemodiversity of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter?

(2019) Beatriz E. Noriega-Ortega et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Plastics: Microbial Degradation, Environmental and Biotechnological Perspectives

(2019) Dominik Danso et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019

(2019) Fábio Madeira et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Scalable methods for analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic placement of metagenomic samples

(2019) Lucas Czech et al.   PLoS One

The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms

(2019) Inga Vanessa Kirstein et al.   PLoS One

Understanding microbial community dynamics to improve optimal microbiome selection

(2019) Robyn J. Wright et al.   Microbiome

Dos and Do Nots When Assessing the Biodegradation of Plastics

(2019) Michael T. Zumstein et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Biodegradation of mixture of plastic films by tailored marine consortia

(2019) Evdokia Syranidou et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Early Colonization of Weathered Polyethylene by Distinct Bacteria in Marine Coastal Seawater

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ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R

(2018) Emmanuel Paradis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Versatile genome assembly evaluation with QUAST-LG

(2018) Alla Mikheenko et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase

(2018) Harry P. Austin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microplastic-associated bacterial assemblages in the intertidal zone of the Yangtze Estuary

(2018) Peilin Jiang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Dissolved organic carbon leaching from plastics stimulates microbial activity in the ocean

(2018) Cristina Romera-Castillo et al.   Nature Communications

Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers

(2018) Dakota E. McCoy et al.   Nature Communications

Environmental Factors Support the Formation of Specific Bacterial Assemblages on Microplastics

(2018) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The reconstruction of 2,631 draft metagenome-assembled genomes from the global oceans

(2018) Benjamin J. Tully et al.   Scientific Data

New Insights into the Function and Global Distribution of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)-Degrading Bacteria and Enzymes in Marine and Terrestrial Metagenomes

(2018) Dominik Danso et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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EPA-ng: Massively Parallel Evolutionary Placement of Genetic Sequences

(2018) Pierre Barbera et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

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

Fouling Microbial Communities on Plastics Compared with Wood and Steel: Are They Substrate- or Location-Specific?

(2018) Thirumahal Muthukrishnan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Deep-sea anthropogenic macrodebris harbours rich and diverse communities of bacteria and archaea

(2018) Lucy C. Woodall et al.   PLoS One

Profiles of bacterial assemblages from microplastics of tropical coastal environments

(2018) Emily Curren et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Substrate specificities of aromatic ring-hydroxylating oxygenases of an uncultured gammaproteobacterium from chronically-polluted subantarctic sediments

(2018) Matías A. Musumeci et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Microplastics alter composition of fungal communities in aquatic ecosystems

(2017) Marie Therese Kettner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Lost, but Found with Nile Red: A Novel Method for Detecting and Quantifying Small Microplastics (1 mm to 20 μm) in Environmental Samples

(2017) Gabriel Erni-Cassola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat

(2017) Carlo Giacomo Avio et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

The plastic in microplastics: A review

(2017) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

In situ click chemistry generation of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors

(2017) Atul Bhardwaj et al.   Nature Communications

Biodegradation of weathered polystyrene films in seawater microcosms

(2017) Evdokia Syranidou et al.   Scientific Reports

Nutrient recycling facilitates long-term stability of marine microbial phototroph–heterotroph interactions

(2017) Joseph A. Christie-Oleza et al.   Nature Microbiology

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

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

Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films

(2017) Evdokia Syranidou et al.   PLoS One

Ideonella sakaiensis sp. nov., isolated from a microbial consortium that degrades poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Somboon Tanasupawat et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Ethylene Glycol Metabolism in the Acetogen Acetobacterium woodii

(2016) Dragan Trifunović et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

BlastKOALA and GhostKOALA: KEGG Tools for Functional Characterization of Genome and Metagenome Sequences

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Anisha Keswani et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

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

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

Release of synthetic microplastic plastic fibres from domestic washing machines: Effects of fabric type and washing conditions

(2016) Imogen E. Napper et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

CDD/SPARCLE: functional classification of proteins via subfamily domain architectures

(2016) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Shosuke Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

(2016) Manoshi S. Datta et al.   Nature Communications

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

MetaQUAST: evaluation of metagenome assemblies

(2015) Alla Mikheenko et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Bacterial Community Profiling of Plastic Litter in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

(2015) Caroline A. De Tender et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The biogeography of the Plastisphere: implications for policy

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

Characterisation, quantity and sorptive properties of microplastics extracted from cosmetics

(2015) Imogen E. Napper et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

“You produce while I clean up”, a strategy revealed by exoproteomics duringSynechococcus-Roseobacterinteractions

(2015) Joseph A. Christie-Oleza et al.   PROTEOMICS

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

Pathways for degradation of plastic polymers floating in the marine environment

(2015) Berit Gewert et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Broad specificity microbial enzymes

(2015) Lawrence P. Wackett   Microbial Biotechnology

Indigenous oil-degrading bacteria in crude oil-contaminated seawater of the Yellow sea, China

(2014) Wanpeng Wang et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

Seaweeds and plastic debris can influence the survival of faecal indicator organisms in beach environments

(2014) Richard S. Quilliam et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

CDD: NCBI's conserved domain database

(2014) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Metagenomic 16S rDNA Illumina tags are a powerful alternative to amplicon sequencing to explore diversity and structure of microbial communities

(2013) Ramiro Logares et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Biodegradation of polyvinyl alcohol-low linear density polyethylene-blended plastic film by consortium of marine benthic vibrios

(2013) S. S. Raghul et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

The plastic-associated microorganisms of the North Pacific Gyre

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

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

In-Depth Analysis of Exoproteomes from Marine Bacteria by Shotgun Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry: the Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 Case-Study

(2010) Joseph Alexander Christie-Oleza et al.   Marine Drugs

Surface structure and properties of poly-(ethylene terephthalate) hydrolyzed by alkali and cutinase

(2010) Ilaria Donelli et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Bacterial phenylalanine and phenylacetate catabolic pathway revealed

(2010) R. Teufel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Principal response curves technique for the analysis of multivariate biomonitoring time series

(2008) Paul J. van den Brink et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Marine microbe-mediated biodegradation of low- and high-density polyethylenes

(2008) M. Sudhakar et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification

(2008) Jürgen Cox et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY