Microbial Communities Colonizing Microplastics Collected from North Atlantic Ocean (Woods Hole, Mass (IMAGE)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Microbial Communities Colonizing Microplastics Collected from North Atlantic Ocean (Woods Hole, Mass

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The structure of microbial communities colonizing microplastics collected from the North Atlantic Ocean (Vineyard Sound, Woods Hole, Mass.) This image reveals the phylogenetic affiliations of different bacterial groups. Large ellipsoid and pennate yellow cells= diatoms; long filamentous cell across center = cyanobacteria; blue= general bacteria; yellow rods = Bacteroidetes; red = Alphaproteobacteria; cyan= Rhodobacteraceae. Scale bar is 2 micrometers. Imaging technology is confocal laser-scanning and CLASI-FISH.

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Cathleen Schlundt

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