Experimental development of a new protocol for extraction and characterization of microplastics in fish tissues: First observations in commercial species from Adriatic Sea.

By C. Avio, S. Gorbi, F. Regoli. Marine Environmental Research, 2015

697 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

1. L. Su
2. Huahong Shi
3. Dongqi Yang
4. M. Seeley
5. F. Regoli
6. P. Soudant
7. K. Duis
8. R. Hale

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. F. Regoli
2. C. Avio
3. K. Duis
4. A. Coors
5. S. Gorbi
6. I. Paul-Pont
7. C. Moore
8. P. Soudant

In Pollution

1. L. Su
2. Huahong Shi
3. Dongqi Yang
4. F. Regoli
5. C. Avio
6. Jiana Li
7. A. Coors
8. K. Duis

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• Size matters more than shape: Ingestion of primary and secondary microplastics by small predators (2018, background): “5% of the studied fishes having ingested plastic particles (Boerger et al., 2010; Foekema et al., 2013; Lusher et al., 2013; Avio et al., 2015; Liboiron et al., 2016; Rummel et al., 2016).”
• Microplastics and mesoplastics in fish from coastal and fresh waters of China. (2017, methodology): “In previous investigations, the digestion method has been used to extract microplastics from the stomach (e.g., Bellas et al., 2016) or from the GIT of fish (e.g., Foekema et al., 2013; Avio et al., 2015; Rochman et al., 2015).”
• The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters (2016, positive): “Artificial polymers have been found in the stomach contents of Mediterranean pelagic predators 22 , deep-sea fishes 23 and commercial species 24 .”
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• Plastics and microplastics in the oceans: From emerging pollutants to emerged threat. (2017, background): “…the effects of a different distribution of microplastics in the marine environment, where floating microplastics are commonly aggregated in patches (elevated density but irregular spatial distribution), while sinking particles are more homogeneously distributed in sediments (Avio et al., 2015b).”