The plastic Trojan horse: Biofilms increase microplastic uptake in marine filter feeders impacting microbial transfer and organism health

The Travelling Particles: Investigating microplastics as possible transport vectors for multidrug resistant E. coli in the Weser estuary (Germany)

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Colonisation of plastic pellets (nurdles) by E. coli at public bathing beaches

(2019) Alyssa Rodrigues et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in coastal areas and seafood: implications for food safety

(2019) Inneke Hantoro et al.   Food Additives and Contaminants Part A-Chemistry Analysis Control Exposure & Risk Assessment

Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis

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Dispersal of potentially pathogenic bacteria by plastic debris in Guanabara Bay, RJ, Brazil

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Global ecological, social and economic impacts of marine plastic

(2019) Nicola J. Beaumont et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Selective Ingestion and Egestion of Plastic Particles by the Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis) and Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica): Implications for Using Bivalves as Bioindicators of Microplastic Pollution

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Microplastics in different tissues of fish and prawn from the Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf

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Trophic transfer of microplastics and mixed contaminants in the marine food web and implications for human health

(2018) Maddison Carbery et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Exposure to and colonisation by antibiotic-resistant E. coli in UK coastal water users: Environmental surveillance, exposure assessment, and epidemiological study (Beach Bum Survey)

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Evidence for selective bacterial community structuring on microplastics

(2018) Martin Ogonowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microplastics in mussels sampled from coastal waters and supermarkets in the United Kingdom

(2018) Jiana Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators

(2018) Sarah E. Nelms et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics Affect Energy Balance and Gametogenesis in the Pearl Oyster Pinctada margaritifera

(2018) Tony Gardon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Quantifying salinity and season effects on eastern oyster clearance and oxygen consumption rates

(2018) S. M. Casas et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of the effects of exposure to microplastics on fish and aquatic invertebrates

(2018) Carolyn J. Foley et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Assessing the relationship between the abundance and properties of microplastics in water and in mussels

(2018) Xiaoyun Qu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

(2018) Ilka Peeken et al.   Nature Communications

Worldwide distribution and abundance of microplastic: How dire is the situation?

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Microplastics in the aquatic environment: Evidence for or against adverse impacts and major knowledge gaps

(2018) Emily E. Burns et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Microplastic in marine organism: Environmental and toxicological effects

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Selective Capture and Ingestion of Particles by Suspension-Feeding Bivalve Molluscs: A Review

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Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition

(2018) J.P.G.L. Frias et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastic in cultured oysters from different coastal areas of China

(2018) Jia Teng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

An assessment of the ability to ingest and excrete microplastics by filter-feeders: A case study with the Mediterranean mussel

(2018) Cátia Gonçalves et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Interactions of microplastic debris throughout the marine ecosystem

(2017) Tamara S. Galloway et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Effects of microplastics on European flat oysters, Ostrea edulis and their associated benthic communities

(2016) Dannielle Senga Green   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Uptake and Accumulation of Polystyrene Microplastics in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Toxic Effects in Liver

(2016) Yifeng Lu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Oyster reproduction is affected by exposure to polystyrene microplastics

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A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

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

Ingested microplastics (>100μm) are translocated to organs of the tropical fiddler crab Uca rapax

(2015) Dennis Brennecke et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Pathways for degradation of plastic polymers floating in the marine environment

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

The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review

(2013) Stephanie L. Wright et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biomagnification of Mercury in Aquatic Food Webs: A Worldwide Meta-Analysis

(2013) Raphael A. Lavoie et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Early host-pathogen interactions in marine bivalves: Evidence that the alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus infects through the oyster mantle during rejection of pseudofeces

(2012) Bassem Allam et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Bivalve molluscs as a unique target group for nanoparticle toxicity

(2011) Laura Canesi et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine biofilms on submerged surfaces are a reservoir forEscherichia coliandVibrio cholerae

(2009) Nicholas J. Shikuma et al.   BIOFOULING

Marine aggregates facilitate ingestion of nanoparticles by suspension-feeding bivalves

(2009) J. Evan Ward et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Ingested Microscopic Plastic Translocates to the Circulatory System of the Mussel,Mytilus edulis(L.)

(2008) Mark A. Browne et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY