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Plastics in Porifera: The occurrence of potential microplastics in marine sponges and seawater from...

Plastics in Porifera: The occurrence of potential microplastics in marine sponges and seawater from...

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Plastics in Porifera: The occurrence of potential microplastics in marine sponges and seawater from Bocas del Toro, Panamá

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Plastics in Porifera: The occurrence of potential microplastics in marine sponges and seawater from Bocas del Toro, Panamá

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San Diego: PeerJ. Ltd

Journal title

PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 2021-07, Vol.9, p.e11638-e11638, Article e11638

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English

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San Diego: PeerJ. Ltd

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Microplastics (MP) are now considered ubiquitous across global aquatic environments. The ingestion of MP by fish and other marine vertebrates is well studied, but the ingestion of MP by marine invertebrates is not. Sponges (Phylum Porifera) are particularly understudied when it comes to MP ingestion, even though they are widely distributed across b...

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Plastics in Porifera: The occurrence of potential microplastics in marine sponges and seawater from Bocas del Toro, Panamá

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_c0abcf2cfa754954a717cd23a824ae54

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_c0abcf2cfa754954a717cd23a824ae54

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2167-8359

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2167-8359

DOI

10.7717/peerj.11638

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