The structure and assembly mechanisms of plastisphere microbial community in natural marine environment

Spatial and seasonal variations in biofilm formation on microplastics in coastal waters

(2021) Bin Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Riverine microplastic and microbial community compositions: a field study in the Netherlands

(2021) Lapo Mughini-Gras et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Exploring the Composition and Functions of Plastic Microbiome Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

(2021) Geetika Bhagwat et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A functional gene-array analysis of microbial communities settling on microplastics in a peat-draining environment

(2021) Ishraq Rahman et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Nano and microplastic interactions with freshwater biota – Current knowledge, challenges and future solutions

(2021) Anna Kukkola et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Biodegradation of Polyethylene and Polystyrene by Greater Wax Moth Larvae (Galleria mellonella L.) and the Effect of Co-diet Supplementation on the Core Gut Microbiome

(2020) Yu Lou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ecology of the plastisphere

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

The balance between deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring lake bacterioplankton community over time

(2020) Pablo Aguilar et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Community structure and functional diversity of the plastisphere in aquaculture waters: Does plastic color matter?

(2020) Bin Wen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Deciphering the succession dynamics of dominant and rare genera in biofilm development process

(2020) Shasha Yuan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evidence of selective enrichment of bacterial assemblages and antibiotic resistant genes by microplastics in urban rivers

(2020) Jie Wang et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Microplastic-associated biofilms in lentic Italian ecosystems

(2020) Francesca Di Pippo et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Distinct microbial metabolic activities of biofilms colonizing microplastics in three freshwater ecosystems

(2020) Lingzhan Miao et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Forfeiting the priority effect: turnover defines biofilm community succession

(2019) Colin J. Brislawn et al.   ISME Journal

Phycosphere microbial succession patterns and assembly mechanisms in a marine dinoflagellate bloom

(2019) Jin Zhou et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Colonization Characteristics of Bacterial Communities on Plastic Debris Influenced by Environmental Factors and Polymer Types in the Haihe Estuary of Bohai Bay, China

(2019) Wenjie Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bacterial Candidates for Colonization and Degradation of Marine Plastic Debris

(2019) Line Roager et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Marine microplastic-associated bacterial community succession in response to geography, exposure time, and plastic type in China's coastal seawaters

(2019) Xiyuan Xu et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial Environmental Heterogeneity Determines Young Biofilm Assemblages on Microplastics in Baltic Sea Mesocosms

(2019) Katharina Kesy et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

(2019) Shuo Jiao et al.   ISME Journal

Selective enrichment of bacterial pathogens by microplastic biofilm

(2019) Xiaojian Wu et al.   WATER RESEARCH

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

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

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

Microplastics: New substrates for heterotrophic activity contribute to altering organic matter cycles in aquatic ecosystems

(2018) Maria Arias-Andres et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Factors Support the Formation of Specific Bacterial Assemblages on Microplastics

(2018) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Rootstocks Shape the Rhizobiome: Rhizosphere and Endosphere Bacterial Communities in the Grafted Tomato System

(2018) Ravin Poudel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Profiles of bacterial assemblages from microplastics of tropical coastal environments

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

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

Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?

(2017) Jizhong Zhou et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

(2016) Shengjing Shi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microbial community diversity, structure and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau

(2016) Matthew S. Meyerhof et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deterministic assembly processes govern bacterial community structure in the Fynbos, South Africa

(2016) I. Moroenyane et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Bacterial evolution: Genomics of metabolic trade-offs

(2016) Martin F. Polz et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters

(2016) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   Scientific Reports

Prospects for microbiological solutions to environmental pollution with plastics

(2015) Martin C. Krueger et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Tax4Fun: predicting functional profiles from metagenomic 16S rRNA data: Fig. 1.

(2015) Kathrin P. Aßhauer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Quantitatively Predicting Bacterial Adhesion Using Surface Free Energy Determined with a Spectrophotometric Method

(2015) Xinru Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects

(2015) Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

(2015) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Application of a Neutral Community Model To Assess Structuring of the Human Lung Microbiome

(2015) Arvind Venkataraman et al.   mBio

The Role of Microbial Amino Acid Metabolism in Host Metabolism

(2015) Evelien Neis et al.   Nutrients

Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly

(2015) James C. Stegen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Shifts in the Microbial Community, Nitrifiers and Denitrifiers in the Biofilm in a Full-scale Rotating Biological Contactor

(2014) Xingxing Peng 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

Integrons: Past, Present, and Future

(2014) Michael R. Gillings   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

(2014) David Berry et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

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

Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them

(2013) James C Stegen et al.   ISME Journal

Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   ISME Journal

Ocean currents shape the microbiome of Arctic marine sediments

(2012) Leila J Hamdan et al.   ISME Journal

Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities

(2012) James C Stegen 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

Microbial interactions: from networks to models

(2012) Karoline Faust et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

(2011) Nicola Segata et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Quantitation of persistent organic pollutants adsorbed on plastic debris from the Northern Pacific Gyre's “eastern garbage patch”

(2010) Lorena M. Rios* et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

(2010) J. Zhou et al.   mBio

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

When can we distinguish between neutral and non-neutral processes in community dynamics under ecological drift?

(2009) Lasse Ruokolainen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microclimate and limits to photosynthesis in a diverse community of hypolithic cyanobacteria in northern Australia

(2009) Christopher R. Tracy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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