ArticleMicroorganisms2022
Year-Long Microbial Succession on Microplastics in Wastewater: Chaotic Dynamics Outweigh Preferential Growth.
Article in Microorganisms, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- The plastisphere: not a unique biofilm but a unifying concept for the interdisciplinary plastic biofilm research community.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Early microbial colonization study of daily-use plastics exposed to river water.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Article
- Microbes with plastic-degrading and pathogenic potentials are present on plastics in the final polishing pond of a wastewater treatment plant.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Microbial Succession on Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Exploring the Complexities of Microplastic-Microbiome Interactions.Microbial ecology · 2024Review
- Microbial communities colonising plastics during transition from the wastewater treatment plant to marine waters.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microplastics are a globally-ubiquitous aquatic pollutant and have been heavily studied over the last decade. Of particular interest are the interactions between microplastics and microorganisms, especially the pursuit to discover a plastic-specific biome, the so-called plastisphere. To follow this up, a year-long microcosm experimental setup was deployed to expose five different microplastic types (and silica beads control) to activated aerobic wastewater in controlled conditions, with microbial communities being measured four times over the course of the year using 16S rDNA (bacterial) and ITS (fungal) amplicon sequencing. The biofilm community shows no evidence of a specific plastisphere, even after a year of incubation. Indeed, the microbial communities (particularly bacterial) show a clear trend of increasing dissimilarity between plastic types as time increases. Despite little evidence for a plastic-specific community, there was a slight grouping observed for polyolefins (PE and PP) in 6-12-month biofilms. Additionally, an OTU assigned to the genus
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