Extracting DNA from ocean microplastics: a method comparison study

Pavla Debeljak, Maria Pinto, Maira Proietti, Julia Reisser, Francesco F. Ferrari, Ben Abbas, Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht, Boyan Slat, Gerhard J. Herndl

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1521-1526
Number of pages6
JournalAnalytical Methods
Volume9
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2017

Funding

We thank The Ocean Cleanup supporters and the Mega Expedition project team. We also acknowledge Christian Baranyi (University of Vienna) for advice on nucleic acid puri. cation and assistance in the lab, as well as colleagues at the TU Del. Biotechnology for support during extractions. We thank Charles de Boer for assistance with Raman spectroscopy at the Kavli Nanolab at TU Del.. This study was supported by a DOC grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Grant number: 24446) to M. P. and by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF; ARTEMIS project P28781-B21) to G. J. H.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106021 Marine biology

Keywords

  • MARINE DEBRIS
  • MICROORGANISMS
  • BIODEGRADATION
  • ENVIRONMENT

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