Evidence for selective bacterial community structuring on microplastics

Impacts of Biofilm Formation on the Fate and Potential Effects of Microplastic in the Aquatic Environment

(2017) Christoph D. Rummel et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

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

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

Microplastic in surface waters of urban rivers: concentration, sources, and associated bacterial assemblages

(2016) Amanda R. McCormick et al.   Ecosphere

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

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 composition of the zebrafish intestinal microbial community varies across development

(2015) W Zac Stephens et al.   ISME Journal

Screening for microplastic particles in plankton samples: How to integrate marine litter assessment into existing monitoring programs?

(2015) Elena Gorokhova   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Characterisation, quantity and sorptive properties of microplastics extracted from cosmetics

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

Equivalent input produces different output in the UniFrac significance test

(2014) Jeffrey R Long et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

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

In situ environment rather than substrate type dictates microbial community structure of biofilms in a cold seep system

(2014) On On Lee et al.   Scientific Reports

Species sorting during biofilm assembly by artificial substrates deployed in a cold seep system

(2014) Wei Peng Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Fast and efficient nanoshear hybrid alkaline pretreatment of corn stover for biofuel and materials production

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review

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

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

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

Study of microbes having potentiality for biodegradation of plastics

(2013) Swapan Kumar Ghosh et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Dominant petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the Archipelago Sea in South-West Finland (Baltic Sea) belong to different taxonomic groups than hydrocarbon degraders in the oceans

(2013) Anna Reunamo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks

(2013) Pelin Yilmaz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Measurements of contact angle between fine, non-porous particles with varying hydrophobicity and water and non-polar liquids of different viscosities

(2013) Emilia Nowak et al.   POWDER TECHNOLOGY

The influence of substrate on DNA transfer and extraction efficiency

(2012) Timothy J. Verdon et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Evaluation of microbial degradation of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea

(2012) Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

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

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Comparison of the Fecal Microbiota of Healthy Horses and Horses with Colitis by High Throughput Sequencing of the V3-V5 Region of the 16S rRNA Gene

(2012) Marcio C. Costa et al.   PLoS One

Species sorting and neutral processes are both important during the initial assembly of bacterial communities

(2011) Silke Langenheder et al.   ISME Journal

The role of conditioning film formation and surface chemical changes on Xylella fastidiosa adhesion and biofilm evolution

(2011) Gabriela S. Lorite et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Interactions Between Microorganisms and Marine Microplastics: A Call for Research

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

Development of Bacterial Biofilms on Artificial Corals in Comparison to Surface-Associated Microbes of Hard Corals

(2011) Michael John Sweet et al.   PLoS One

UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

(2010) Catherine Lozupone et al.   ISME Journal

Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris

(2010) Delphine Lobelle et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

(2010) Simon Anders et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Biofouling and stability of synthetic polymers in sea water

(2009) Trishul Artham et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Polymer Surfaces as a Substrate for Bacterial Attachment and Biofilm Formation

(2009) Hayden K. Webb et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Bacterial diversity associated with archaeological waterlogged wood: Ribosomal RNA clone libraries and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)

(2007) Eleanor T. Landy et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION