ArticleBiology letters2018
Up and away: ontogenic transference as a pathway for aerial dispersal of microplastics.
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- Quantifying microplastic ingestion, degradation and excretion in insects using fluorescent plastics.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
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- Urban mosquitoes and filamentous green algae: their biomonitoring role in heavy metal pollution in open drainage channels in Nairobi industrial area, Kenya.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Exposure to microplastics cause gut damage, locomotor dysfunction, epigenetic silencing, and aggravate cadmium (Cd) toxicity in Drosophila.The Science of the total environment · 2020Article
- Ionic Liquids as Extractants for Nanoplastics.ChemSusChem · 2020Article
- Health impacts of environmental contamination of micro- and nanoplastics: a review.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2020Review
- Response to comments on "Changes in plants due to elevated COBiological conservation · 2020Article
- Nanoparticles transported from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems via emerging aquatic insects compromise subsidy quality.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Solving the plastic problem: From cradle to grave, to reincarnation.Science progress · 2019Article
- Plant Cuttings.Annals of botany · 2019Article
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Abstract
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous pollutants found in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. With so many MPs in aquatic systems, it is inevitable that they will be ingested by aquatic organisms and be transferred up through the food chain. However, to date, no study has considered whether MPs can be transmitted by means of ontogenic transference, i.e. between life stages that use different habitats. Here, we determine whether fluorescent polystyrene beads could transfer between
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