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Microplastic fiber diet—Fiber-supplemented pellets for small fish

Ingestion of microplastic particles and fibers is frequently reported for aquatic organisms collected in the field. At the same time, only few studies investigate potential effects of ingestion of microplastic fibers due to handling issues in the laboratory. Exposure studies, which provide organisms...

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Autores principales: Rebelein, Anja, Focken, Ulfert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.101204
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description Ingestion of microplastic particles and fibers is frequently reported for aquatic organisms collected in the field. At the same time, only few studies investigate potential effects of ingestion of microplastic fibers due to handling issues in the laboratory. Exposure studies, which provide organisms with microplastic fibers via the diet, are a necessary step to analyze impact thresholds of vital and fitness parameters of aquatic organisms. Based on the limited number of studies providing fish with fiber-supplemented pellets, the following protocol presents a way to prepare a diet for fish that is supplemented with homogeneous distributed microplastic fibers for exposure studies. Produced pellets are suitable for small experimental fish, such as sticklebacks (2–5 cm), and can be manufactured up to amounts of several hundred grams and even few kilograms. The method can be adapted to different commercial fish feeds and microplastic fiber types due to manual preparation. • Low-cost, manual preparation of microplastic fibers; • Preparation of a pelleted fish diet with uniformly distributed fibers; • Adaptable to different commercial fish feeds and microplastic fiber types.
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spelling pubmed-83742352021-08-24 Microplastic fiber diet—Fiber-supplemented pellets for small fish Rebelein, Anja Focken, Ulfert MethodsX Method Article Ingestion of microplastic particles and fibers is frequently reported for aquatic organisms collected in the field. At the same time, only few studies investigate potential effects of ingestion of microplastic fibers due to handling issues in the laboratory. Exposure studies, which provide organisms with microplastic fibers via the diet, are a necessary step to analyze impact thresholds of vital and fitness parameters of aquatic organisms. Based on the limited number of studies providing fish with fiber-supplemented pellets, the following protocol presents a way to prepare a diet for fish that is supplemented with homogeneous distributed microplastic fibers for exposure studies. Produced pellets are suitable for small experimental fish, such as sticklebacks (2–5 cm), and can be manufactured up to amounts of several hundred grams and even few kilograms. The method can be adapted to different commercial fish feeds and microplastic fiber types due to manual preparation. • Low-cost, manual preparation of microplastic fibers; • Preparation of a pelleted fish diet with uniformly distributed fibers; • Adaptable to different commercial fish feeds and microplastic fiber types. Elsevier 2020-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8374235/ /pubmed/34434727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.101204 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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