Canonical bacterial colonization process

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Abstract
Résumé en français
Introduction
1. Microplastics and its distribution in the ocean
1.1 Plastic production and classification
1.2 Microplastics and Source of the oceanic microplastics
1.3 The occurrences of microplastics in the ocean
2. microbes and “plastisphere”
2.1 Microbes in the ocean
2.2 Canonical bacterial colonization process
2.3 Bacterial lifestyle and adaptation
2.4 Zooming in on “Plastisphere”
2.5 Factors driving the formation of bacterial plastisphere
2.6 Impact of plastic and plastic biofilm in ecosystem
2.7 Plastic degradation
3. Toxicity of plastics to marine creatures
3.1 Plastics ingestion and entanglement
3.2 Toxic aspects of microplastics
Summary of introduction:
Thesis Objectives
Chapter 2: Relative influence of plastic debris size and shape, chemical composition and phytoplankton-bacteria interactions in driving seawater plastisphere abundance, diversity and activity
Chapter 3: Beneficial or detrimental effects of microplastics on the marine filter-feeder amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum)?
Chapter 4: Biodegradability under marine conditions of bio-based and petroleum-based polymers as substitutes of conventional microbeads
CHAPTER 5: General discussions and perspectives
1. Main results and general discussions
2. Perspectives
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