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. 2023 Mar 31;2(2):e101.
doi: 10.1002/imt2.101. eCollection 2023 May.

Plastisphere microbiome: Methodology, diversity, and functionality

Yuanze Sun  1 , Mochen Wu  1 , Jingxi Zang  1 , Linna Du  2 , Muke Huang  3 , Cheng Chen  3 , Jie Wang  1
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Plastisphere microbiome: Methodology, diversity, and functionality

Yuanze Sun et al. Imeta. .

Abstract

Broad topics of the plastisphere in various environments are reviewed, including its methodologies, diversity, functionality, and outlook.

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Figure 1
The typical experimental approaches to study plastisphere in aquatic and terrestrial environments.
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Figure 2
Amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing used for studying plastisphere.
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Figure 3
General structure of the bacterial communities in seawater, freshwater, and soil plastisphere (data based on REFs [17, 20, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 40, 62, 63, 67, 74]).
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