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Discovery of dark matter fungi in aquatic ecosystems demands a reappraisal of the phylogeny and ecology of zoosporic fungi

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

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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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A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

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Molecular diversity and distribution of marine fungi across 130 European environmental samples

(2015) Thomas A. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs

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Identification of Habitat-Specific Biomes of Aquatic Fungal Communities Using a Comprehensive Nearly Full-Length 18S rRNA Dataset Enriched with Contextual Data

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The Danube so colourful: A potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in Europe's second largest river

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Microplastic is an Abundant and Distinct Microbial Habitat in an Urban River

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High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake

(2014) Christopher M. Free et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Molecular Diversity of Eukaryotes in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Processes as Revealed by 18S rRNA Gene Analysis

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Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Freshwater Ecosystems: Distribution and Microbial Interactions

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

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Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs

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

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Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

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

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

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Marine Fungi: Their Ecology and Molecular Diversity

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Exploring and quantifying fungal diversity in freshwater lake ecosystems using rDNA cloning/sequencing and SSU tag pyrosequencing

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Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks

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(2010) Klaus Peter Schliep   BIOINFORMATICS

Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

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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

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Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

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Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

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Biological degradation of plastics: A comprehensive review

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The ecology of chytrids in aquatic ecosystems: roles in food web dynamics

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