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Bacterial colonisation of plastic in the Rockall Trough, North-East Atlantic: An improved understanding of the deep-sea plastisphere

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

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Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation

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

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Degradability and biofouling of oxo-biodegradable polyethylene in the planktonic and benthic zones of the Arabian Gulf

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(2018) Martin Ogonowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Influence of microplastic addition on glyphosate decay and soil microbial activities in Chinese loess soil

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Synthetic microfibers in the marine environment: A review on their occurrence in seawater and sediments

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

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Systematic genetic dissection of chitin degradation and uptake in Vibrio cholerae

(2017) Chelsea A. Hayes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

(2017) Meinhard Simon et al.   ISME Journal

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

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Influence of Niche-Specific Nutrients on Secondary Metabolism in Vibrionaceae

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Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects

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

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Comparative genomics of Roseobacter clade bacteria isolated from the accessory nidamental gland of Euprymna scolopes

(2015) Andrew J. Collins et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The green impact: bacterioplankton response toward a phytoplankton spring bloom in the southern North Sea assessed by comparative metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches

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Pseudomonasbiofilms: possibilities of their control

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

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MarineRhodobacteraceael-haloacid dehalogenase contains a novel His/Glu dyad that could activate the catalytic water

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification

(2012) Valeria Hidalgo-Ruz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Complex Interaction between Marine Debris and Toxic Chemicals in the Ocean

(2012) Richard E. Engler   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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Effects of mechanical and chemical processes on the degradation of plastic beach debris on the island of Kauai, Hawaii

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International Pellet Watch: Global monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in coastal waters. 1. Initial phase data on PCBs, DDTs, and HCHs

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Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: Microplastics in facial cleansers

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Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular characteristics of xenobiotic-degrading sphingomonads

(2008) Andreas Stolz   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY