Plankton assemblages from microplastics of tropical coastal environments reveal high diversity and evidence of toxic species

Species diversity and community structure of microalgae living on microplastics in Luoyuan Bay, China

(2022) Kang Wang et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the soil: A review of distribution, anthropogenic impact, and interaction with soil microorganisms based on meta-analysis

(2022) Xinxin You et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The Occurrence of Microplastics and the Formation of Biofilms by Pathogenic and Opportunistic Bacteria as Threats in Aquaculture

(2022) Paulina Cholewińska et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Seafloor sediments as microplastic sinks in the northern Baltic Sea – Negligible upward transport of buried microplastics by bioturbation

(2019) Pinja Näkki et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in ballast water as an emerging source and vector for harmful chemicals, antibiotics, metals, bacterial pathogens and HAB species: A potential risk to the marine environment and human health

(2019) Ravidas Krishna Naik et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Degradation of plastics and plastic-degrading bacteria in cold marine habitats

(2018) Aneta K. Urbanek et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

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

Occurrence of microplastics in the water column and sediment in an inland sea affected by intensive anthropogenic activities

(2018) Zhenfei Dai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics along the beaches of southeast coast of India

(2018) R. Karthik et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Profiles of bacterial assemblages from microplastics of tropical coastal environments

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

High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

(2017) Melanie Bergmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

First report of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) caused by Alexandrium tamiyavanichii in Kuantan Port, Pahang, East Coast of Malaysia

(2017) Normawaty Mohammad-Noor et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) as a Source of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment

(2016) Fionn Murphy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microfouling communities from pelagic and benthic marine plastic debris sampled across Mediterranean coastal waters

(2016) Montserrat Demestre et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

Leachate from microplastics impairs larval development in brown mussels

(2016) Pablo Pena Gandara e Silva et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre

(2016) Jessica A. Bryant et al.   mSystems

Microplastic and macroplastic ingestion by a deep diving, oceanic cetacean: The True's beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus

(2015) Amy L. Lusher et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of Toxic Leachate from Commercial Plastics on Larval Survival and Settlement of the Barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite

(2015) Heng-Xiang Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ingestion of Nanoplastics and Microplastics by Pacific Oyster Larvae

(2015) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A multi-phylum study of grazer-induced paralytic shellfish toxin production in the dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense: A new perspective on control of algal toxicity

(2015) Christina D. Senft-Batoh et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Characterisation, quantity and sorptive properties of microplastics extracted from cosmetics

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

Microplastic in a macro filter feeder: Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

(2015) E. Besseling et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

First Detection of Tetrodotoxin in Greek Shellfish by UPLC-MS/MS Potentially Linked to the Presence of the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum

(2015) Aristidis Vlamis et al.   Toxins

Distribution patterns of microplastics within the plankton of a tropical estuary

(2014) A.R.A. Lima et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Uptake and Retention of Microplastics by the Shore Crab Carcinus maenas

(2014) Andrew J. R. Watts et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastics in Four Estuarine Rivers in the Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A.

(2014) Lance T. Yonkos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Transport of persistent organic pollutants by microplastics in estuarine conditions

(2014) Adil Bakir et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Characterization of the 18S rRNA Gene for Designing Universal Eukaryote Specific Primers

(2014) Kenan Hadziavdic et al.   PLoS One

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Microplastics in the seas

(2014) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

Indole Alkaloids from Fischerella Inhibit Vertebrate Development in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryo Model

(2014) Katherine Walton et al.   Toxins

Global warming releases microplastic legacy frozen in Arctic Sea ice

(2014) Rachel W. Obbard et al.   Earths Future

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

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

Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know

(2014) Martin Wagner et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

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

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

Microplastic Ingestion by Zooplankton

(2013) Matthew Cole et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Strong latitudinal patterns in the elemental ratios of marine plankton and organic matter

(2013) Adam C. Martiny et al.   Nature Geoscience

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Gooseneck barnacles (Lepasspp.) ingest microplastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

(2013) Miriam C. Goldstein et al.   PeerJ

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

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

Microplastic in Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Soil?

(2012) Matthias C. Rillig   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The toxic dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides (Dinophyceae) produces resting cysts

(2012) Ying Zhong Tang et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast

(2012) Zouher Amzil et al.   Marine Drugs

Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel

(2012) A.L. Lusher et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Next-generation sequencing technologies for environmental DNA research

(2012) SHADI SHOKRALLA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

(2012) PIERRE TABERLET et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Generation of Multimillion-Sequence 16S rRNA Gene Libraries from Complex Microbial Communities by Assembling Paired-End Illumina Reads

(2011) Andrea K. Bartram et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Interactive metagenomic visualization in a Web browser

(2011) Brian D Ondov et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Variable discharge alters habitat suitability for benthic algae and cyanobacteria in a forested Mediterranean stream

(2010) Elisabet Tornés et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris

(2010) Delphine Lobelle et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Diversity in a hidden world: potential and limitation of next-generation sequencing for surveys of molecular diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms

(2010) RALPH MEDINGER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Comparison of two next-generation sequencing technologies for resolving highly complex microbiota composition using tandem variable 16S rRNA gene regions

(2010) Marcus J. Claesson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogenetic and Chemical Diversity of Three Chemotypes of Bloom-Forming Lyngbya Species (Cyanobacteria: Oscillatoriales) from Reefs of Southeastern Florida

(2009) K. Sharp et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

The intricacies of dinoflagellate pellicle cysts: The example of Alexandrium minutum cysts from a bloom-recurrent area (Bay of Baiona, NW Spain)

(2009) Isabel Bravo et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Microcystin production by a freshwater spring cyanobacterium of the genus Fischerella

(2009) Marli Fátima Fiore et al.   TOXICON

Potential human health risks from metals (Hg, Cd, and Pb) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) via seafood consumption: Estimation of target hazard quotients (THQs) and toxic equivalents (TEQs)

(2008) M.M. Storelli   FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of poly(butylene succinate)-degrading fungi

(2008) Nariaki Ishii et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY