Eva Jimenez-Guri, Periklis Paganos, Claudia La Vecchia, Giovanni Annona, Filomena Caccavale, Maria Dolores Molina, Alfonso Ferrández-Roldán, Rory Daniel Donnellan, Federica Salatiello, Adam Johnstone, Maria Concetta Eliso, Antonietta Spagnuolo, Cristian Cañestro, Ricard Albalat, José María Martín-Durán, Elizabeth A Williams, Enrico D'Aniello, Maria Ina Arnone
Microplastics pose risks to marine organisms through ingestion, entanglement, and as carriers of toxic additives and environmental pollutants. Plastic pre-production pellet leachates have been shown to affect the development of sea urchins and, to some extent, mussels. The extent of those developmental effects on other animal phyla remains unknown. Here, we test the toxicity of environmental mixed nurdle samples and new PVC pellets for the embryonic development or asexual reproduction by regeneration of animals from all the major animal superphyla (Lophotrochozoa, Ecdysozoa, Deuterostomia and Cnidaria)...
April 5, 2024: Chemosphere