Biodiversity of Microorganisms Colonizing the Surface of Polystyrene Samples Exposed to Different Aqueous Environments

Biodiversity of Microorganisms Colonizing the Surface of Polystyrene Samples Exposed to Different Aqueous Environments

The contamination of marine and freshwater ecosystems with the items from thermoplastics, including polystyrene (PS), necessitates the search for efficient microbial degraders of these polymers. In the present study, the composition of prokaryotes in biofilms formed on PS samples incubated in seawat...

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Main Authors: Tatyana Tourova, Diyana Sokolova, Tamara Nazina, Denis Grouzdev, Eugeni Kurshev, Anatoly Laptev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
polystyrene
microbial community
high-throughput sequencing
the 16S rRNA gene
biodegradation
the sty-operon
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/9/3624

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