PRJNA841561
Bacterial colonization dynamics of different microplastic types in an anoxic salt marsh sediment and impact of adsorbed PCBs on the plastisphere
The study aims at exploring the interaction among microplastics made of different polymers, a common contaminant, polychlorinated biphenile, PCB, and the environmental microbial communities, in a submerged marine sediment. We established a field lab by incubating bothpristine and PCB-contaminated plastic fragments in a salt marsh anoxic sediment, to observe the stages of plastisphere formation by16S rRNA gene sequencing.