PMID- 36731374
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230301
LR  - 20230301
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 188
DP  - 2023 Mar
TI  - Presence of microplastic in the Patella caerulea from the northeastern 
      Mediterranean Sea.
PG  - 114684
LID - S0025-326X(23)00115-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114684 [doi]
AB  - This study reports first evidence of microplastic detection in the Patella 
      caerulea collected from 5 different stations located in Iskenderun Bay and Mersin 
      Bay. A total of 160 P. caerulea specimens were examined and 40 of them contained 
      MPs in their soft tissues. The number of microplastics extracted per sample 
      varied from 0.20 +/- 0.5 items/ind to 0.45 +/- 0.7 items/ind depending on station. 
      Fibers were predominant type of MPs and accounted for 75 % to 87.5 % of total 
      extracted MPs, followed by fragments (12.5-25 %). Majority of MPs were 0.5-1 mm 
      size and black in color. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) showed 
      that the extracted MPs were polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), and 
      polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high density polyethylene (HDPE). This study 
      contributes to the knowledge of the transfer of microplastics to the marine food 
      web and highlights the need for protective measurements.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Yucel, Nebil
AU  - Yucel N
AD  - Iskenderun Technical University, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, 
      Department of Water Resources Management and Organization, Hatay, Turkey. 
      Electronic address: nebil.yucel@iste.edu.tr.
FAU - Kilic, Ece
AU  - Kilic E
AD  - Iskenderun Technical University, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, 
      Department of Water Resources Management and Organization, Hatay, Turkey. 
      Electronic address: ece.kilic@iste.edu.tr.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230201
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Microplastics)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Microplastics
MH  - Plastics
MH  - Mediterranean Sea
MH  - Patella
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
MH  - Polyethylene/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Ingestion
OT  - Mediterranean limpet
OT  - Microplastic
OT  - Pollution
OT  - Iskenderun Bay
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2023/02/03 06:00
MHDA- 2023/03/03 06:00
CRDT- 2023/02/02 18:16
PHST- 2022/12/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/01/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/02/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/03/03 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/02/02 18:16 [entrez]
AID - S0025-326X(23)00115-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114684 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2023 Mar;188:114684. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114684. Epub 
      2023 Feb 1.