AUTHOR=Wallbank Jessica A. , Lear Gavin , Kingsbury Joanne M. , Weaver Louise , Doake Fraser , Smith Dawn A. , Audrézet François , Maday Stefan D. M. , Gambarini Victor , Donaldson Lloyd , Theobald Beatrix , Barbier Maxime , Pantos Olga TITLE=Into the Plastisphere, Where Only the Generalists Thrive: Early Insights in Plastisphere Microbial Community Succession JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=9 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.841142 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2022.841142 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=
The ubiquity of plastic debris in marine environments raises the question, what impacts do plastics have on our marine microbiota? To investigate this, we applied bacterial 16S rRNA gene and fungal ITS2 region sequencing to identify changes in microbial biofilm community compositions on marine plastic, over time. We sampled biofilm on virgin linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), nylon-6 (PA) and glass after 2, 6 and 12 weeks of constant immersion in Te Whakaraupō-Lyttelton Harbour, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Of the prokaryotes,