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Gut & Microbiome
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Optimisation of enzymatic digestion and validation of specimen preservation methods for the analysis of ingested microplastics
Analytical Methods
2016
214 citations
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Winnie Courtene‐Jones,
Brian Quinn,
Fionn Murphy,
Stefan F. Gary,
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy
Summary
This study developed and validated an enzymatic tissue digestion method for extracting microplastics from both freshly collected and museum-archived marine specimens. The non-destructive approach opens the possibility of using long-term museum collections to trace historical changes in microplastic ingestion by marine organisms.
Development of an effective, non-destructive enzymatic method to extract microplastics from newly sampled and archival specimen collections.