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Plastic leachates impair growth and oxygen production in Prochlorococcus, the ocean’s most abundant photosynthetic bacteria

Plastic pollution is a global threat to marine ecosystems. Plastic litter can leach a variety of substances into marine environments; however, virtually nothing is known regarding how this affects photosynthetic bacteria at the base of the marine food web. To address this, we investigated the effect...

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Autores principales: Tetu, Sasha G., Sarker, Indrani, Schrameyer, Verena, Pickford, Russell, Elbourne, Liam D. H., Moore, Lisa R., Paulsen, Ian T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6517427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31098417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0410-x