Microplastic-associated microbes: variability and trends in the Bay of Naples (Italy)

Raffaella Casotti1, Vincenzo Donnarumma1, Fabio D'Agostino2, Roberta Piredda3, Erik Zettler4, Carola Murano5, Anna Palumbo5, Augusto Passarelli3, Linda Amaral Zettler6 and Alvaro Adame Rodriguez3, (1)Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, EMI Department, Naples, Italy, (2)CNR, ISMAR Capo Granitola and Mazara del Vallo, Italy, Italy, (3)STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA A. DOHRN, Napoli, Italy, (4)NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, Netherlands, (5)Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, BEOM Department, Naples, Italy, (6)NIOZ, Royal Institute for Sea Research and University of Amsterdam, Texel and Amsterdam, Netherlands