ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021
Understanding Biofilm Formation in Ecotoxicological Assays With Natural and Anthropogenic Particulates.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Investigating the core microbiome concept: Daphnia as a case study.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Effects of microplastics on Daphnia-associated microbiomes in situ and in vitro.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Prolonged survival time of Daphnia magna exposed to polylactic acid breakdown nanoplastics.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Fossil-made polymers harbor unique bacterial assemblages, and concerns have been raised that ingested microplastic may affect the consumer gut microbiota and spread pathogens in animal populations. We hypothesized that in an ecotoxicity assay with a mixture of polystyrene (PS) and clay: (1) microbiome of the test animals inoculates the system with bacteria; (2) relative contribution of PS and the total amount of suspended solids (SS) select for specific bacterial communities; and (3) particle aggregation is affected by biofilm community composition, with concomitant effects on the animal survival. Mixtures of PS and clay at different concentrations of SS (10, 100, and 1000 mg/L) with a varying microplastics contribution (%PS; 0-80%) were incubated with
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