Life in the "plastisphere": Microbial communities on plastic marine debris

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7137-7146

  Zettler, Erik R ^a   Mincer, Tracy J ^b   Amaral Zettler, Linda A ^c  

^a Sea Education Association   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL HABITATS; HYDROCARBON POLYMERS; HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PLASTIC MARINE DEBRIS;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROCARBONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RNA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

DEBRIS;

HYDROCARBON; PLASTIC; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; SURFACE WATER;

AUTOCHTHON; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYDROCARBON; HYDROLYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPEN OCEAN; POLYMER; SUBSTRATE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; HABITAT; HETEROTROPH; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PYROSEQUENCING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYMBIONT; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENES; SEAWATER; WASTE PRODUCTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84880114792     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401288x     Document Type: Article

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