Microplastics in marine ecosystems: A comprehensive review of biological and ecological implications and its mitigation approach using nanotechnology for the …

E Marcharla, S Vinayagam, L Gnanasekaran… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastic contamination has rapidly become a serious environmental issue, threatening
marine ecosystems and human health. This review aims to not only understand the …

Environmental behavior and toxic effects of micro (nano) plastics and engineered nanoparticles on marine organisms under ocean acidification: a review

L Liu, H Yin, Y Xu, B Liu, Y Ma, J Feng, Z Cao… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ocean acidification (OA) driven by human activities and climate change presents new
challenges to marine ecosystems. At the same time, the risks posed by micro (nano) plastics …

Gene expression plasticity facilitates acclimatization of a long-lived Caribbean coral across divergent reef environments

KD Castillo, CB Bove, AM Hughes, ME Powell… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Local adaptation can increase fitness under stable environmental conditions. However, in
rapidly changing environments, compensatory mechanisms enabled through plasticity may …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic effects of exposure to polyethylene microplastics may be mitigated at the expense of growth and photosynthesis in reef-building corals

M Rades, G Poschet, H Gegner, T Wilke… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The causes of the physiological effects of microplastic pollution, potentially harming reef-
building corals, are unclear. Reasons might include increased energy demands for handling …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental and biochemical markers of the impact of pollutant mixtures under the effect of Global Climate Change

JI Bertucci, AB Osorio, L Vidal-Liñán, J Bellas - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the combined impact of microplastics (MP) and Chlorpyriphos (CPF)
on sea urchin larvae (Paracentrotus lividus) under the backdrop of ocean warming and …

Climate change and plastic pollution: A review of their connections

KHD Tang - Tropical Environment, Biology, and Technology, 2023 - tecnoscientifica.com
The world faces two major environmental issues concurrently, namely climate change and
plastic pollution. Though seemingly unrelated, they intricately influence each other. This …

Symbiosis modulates gene expression of symbionts, but not coral hosts, under thermal challenge

HE Aichelman, AK Huzar, DM Wuitchik… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing ocean temperatures are causing dysbiosis between coral hosts and their
symbionts. Previous work suggests that coral host gene expression responds more strongly …

Behavioral and molecular effects of micro and nanoplastics across three plastic types in fish: weathered microfibers induce a similar response to nanosized particles

SJ Hutton, L Kashiwabara, E Anderson… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) are ubiquitous in the environment and have been detected
in most ecosystems, including remote regions. The class of contaminants under the MNP …

Interspecies differences in the transcriptome response of corals to acute heat stress

J Da-Anoy, N Posadas, C Conaco - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Rising sea surface temperatures threaten the survival of corals worldwide, with coral
bleaching events becoming more commonplace. However, different coral species are …

Low incidence of microplastics in coral reefs of Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaiʻi, USA

JB Axworthy, KS Lasdin, JL Padilla-Gamiño - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigated microplastic and other micro-debris pollution in sediment, seawater,
sea cucumbers, and corals from fringing and patch reefs in Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu …