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Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Freshwater Ecosystems: Distribution and Microbial Interactions

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Millimeter-Sized Marine Plastics: A New Pelagic Habitat for Microorganisms and Invertebrates

(2014) Julia Reisser et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

Taxonomy, Epidemiology, and Clinical Relevance of the Genus Arcobacter

(2011) L. Collado et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Molecular characterization of putative biocorroding microbiota with a novel niche detection of Epsilon- and Zetaproteobacteria in Pacific Ocean coastal seawaters

(2011) Hongyue Dang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks

(2011) Mark Anthony Browne et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Analysis of bacterial diversity and metals in produced water, seawater and sediments from an offshore oil and gas production platform

(2011) C. William Yeung et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in marine sediments along the Belgian coast

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Interactions Between Microorganisms and Marine Microplastics: A Call for Research

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

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The microstructure and biogeochemistry of Arctic cryoconite granules

(2011) Harry Langford et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

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(2010) Delphine Lobelle et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Propane Respiration Jump-Starts Microbial Response to a Deep Oil Spill

(2010) David L. Valentine et al.   SCIENCE

Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

(2010) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

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

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

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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Presence of Arcobacter spp. in environmental waters correlates with high levels of fecal pollution

(2008) Luis Collado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology

(2008) Cindy J. Smith et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bacterial communities in the initial stage of marine biofilm formation on artificial surfaces

(2008) Jin-Woo Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY