Microplastics (MPs) are emerging contaminants that cause diverse impacts on soil
ecosystems. As integral members of soil food webs, soil fauna exert key ecological functions …

Global concerns towards potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are steadily increasing due to the
significant threats that PTEs pose to human health and environmental quality. This calls for …

Currently, microplastics (MPs) attracted increased attention for their ubiquity and toxic
properties. In this study, marine medaka was used to explore the individual and combined …

As an emerging pollutant in terrestrial ecosystem, studies on the effects of microplastics on
the gut microbiota of terrestrial organisms are relatively little even though gut microbiota is …

The research on human gut microbiome, regarded as the black box of the human body, is
still at the stage of infancy as the functional properties of the complex gut microbiome have …

The steady increase in the world's population has intensified the need for crop productivity,
but the majority of the agricultural practices are associated with adverse effects on the …

Highlights•Symbiotic microbes can limit or expand their insect hosts' viable temperature
ranges.•Symbiont-assisted cuticle biosynthesis can improve desiccation resistance.•In some …

NLRP3 inflammasome mediated pyroptosis is involved in cadmium exposure-induced
neuroinflammation through the IL-1β/IkB-α-NF-κB-NLRP3 feedback loop in swine …

In recent years, soil pollution by massive accumulation of heavy metals (HMs), microplastics,
and refractory hydrocarbon chemicals has become an emerging and global concern …

Heavy metals (HMs) in husbandry waste have become a serious concern. To understand
the impact of bioaugmentation on HMs-influenced composting, HMs-influenced swine …