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Trophic transfer and their impact of microplastics on estuarine food chain model.

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Tiny, shiny, and colorful microplastics: Are regular glitters a significant source of microplastics?

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Impacts of polystyrene microplastics on Daphnia magna: A laboratory and a mesocosm study

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Spatial Variability and Influence of Biological Parameters on Microplastic Ingestion by Boops boops (L.) along the Italian Coasts (Western Mediterranean Sea)

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Metabolomic Disorders Unveil Hepatotoxicity of Environmental Microplastics in Wild Fish Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758)

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Comprehensive understanding the impacts of dietary exposure to polyethylene microplastics on genetically improved farmed tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus): tracking from growth, microbiota, metabolism to gene expressions

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Towards more ecologically relevant investigations of the impacts of microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems

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Microplastic Presence in the Pelagic Fish, Seriola dumerili, from Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean), and Assessment of Oxidative Stress and Detoxification Biomarkers in Liver

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Microplastics Accumulation in Gastrointestinal Tracts of Mullus barbatus and Merluccius merluccius Is Associated with Increased Cytokine Production and Signaling

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The response of life history defense of cladocerans under predation risk varies with the size and concentration of microplastics

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Is Wild Marine Biota Affected by Microplastics?

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The Effect of Microplastic Ingestion on Survival of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio (Holthuis, 1949) Challenged with Vibrio campbellii

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Differentiation of suspended particles by polarized light scattering at 120°

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Effects of Human Activity on Markers of Oxidative Stress in the Intestine of Holothuria tubulosa, with Special Reference to the Presence of Microplastics

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Effects of Pollutants and Microplastics Ingestion on Oxidative Stress and Monoaminergic Activity of Seabream Brains

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Effects of polyester fibers and car tire particles on freshwater invertebrates

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Modelling microplastic bioaccumulation and biomagnification potential in the Galápagos penguin ecosystem using Ecopath and Ecosim (EwE) with Ecotracer

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Mediated food and hydrodynamics on the ingestion of microplastics by Daphnia magna

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Reductions of Plastic Microbeads from Personal Care Products in Wastewater Effluents and Lake Waters Following Regulatory Actions

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Genotoxicity and metabolic changes induced via ingestion of virgin and UV-aged polyethylene microplastics by the freshwater fish Perca fluviatilis

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Effect of alternative natural diet on microplastic ingestion, functional responses and trophic transfer in a tri-trophic coastal pelagic food web.

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Adsorption properties and mechanism of Cu(II) on virgin and aged microplastics in the aquatic environment

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In situ laboratory for plastic degradation in the Red Sea

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Temporal patterns of plastic contamination in surface waters at the SS Yongala shipwreck, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastics and phenanthrene show limited effects on the behaviour and physiology of green crab lineages

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