Dataset of impact of micro and nanoplastic in early juveniles of Limulus polyphemus of the Yucatán Peninsula

Summary

Scientists tested how tiny plastic particles (microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics) affect baby horseshoe crabs, tracking their survival, growth, breathing, behavior, and internal stress responses over three weeks. Horseshoe crabs are ecologically important and their blood is even used to test the safety of vaccines and medical devices, so understanding how plastic pollution harms them can reveal broader risks to ocean food chains that eventually connect back to human health. This dataset provides the raw numbers behind those findings for other researchers to study further.