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Unique Bacterial Community of the Biofilm on Microplastics in Coastal Water

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 2020 17 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 30 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.

Jian Lü, Jian‐Hua Wang, Jian Lü, Yongming Luo Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Yuxuan Zhang, Jian Lü, Yuxuan Zhang, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jun Wu, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jun Wu, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Yongming Luo Jian‐Hua Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Jian‐Hua Wang, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jian Lü, Jun Wu, Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jian Lü, Jian Lü, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yuxuan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhang, Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Jian‐Hua Wang, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jian Lü, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jian‐Hua Wang, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Jian‐Hua Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jun Wu, Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jian Lü, Yuxuan Zhang, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jun Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Jun Wu, Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo Yongming Luo

Summary

Researchers compared bacterial communities forming biofilms on steel, silica, and PVC microplastic surfaces in coastal seawater and found that biofilm composition differed by material type. This shows that the type of plastic surface influences which microbial communities colonize it, with implications for how microplastics may spread specific bacteria.

Polymers

PVC

Study Type Environmental

Being immersed in seawater for a few days, microorganisms will adhere to the surface of different materials and form biofilms. After being immersed in seawater for 1 week, high-throughput sequencing method was used to analyze the bacterial community structure of the biofilms on the surface of microbeads with different materials including steel, SiO, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Operational taxonomic unit clustering results showed that some differences existed in the bacterial communities attached to the surface of different microbeads. Each microbead made by different material had its unique bacterial community. The heatmap indicated that the dominant genera on the surface of different microbeads were different from each other. Quantitative analysis showed that the relative abundance of dominant genera were different among different types of microbeads. Beta diversity analysis and principal component analysis showed that difference in the bacterial community on surface of steel-bead and PVC-bead was the most significant.

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