Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris

• Sonja Oberbeckmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sonja Oberbeckmann, Melissa B. Duhaime

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS, United Kingdom, Environmental Microbiology Working Group, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany

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• A. Mark Osborn,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS, United Kingdom, School of Applied Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, PO Box 77, Bundoora, VIC3083, Australia

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• Melissa B. Duhaime

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sonja Oberbeckmann, Melissa B. Duhaime

  * E-mail: duhaimem@umich.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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