The Science of the total environment
Exposure to aged polypropylene nurdle leachates disrupts photosymbiosis in a kleptoplastic unicellular eukaryote.
Vincent M P Bouchet, Leslie Muller, Adrien Brown, Noémie Deldicq, Alice Deiss, Loic Tailliez, Fabrice Bertile
Published: 202610.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181394
Abstract
Kleptoplasty, i.e. the sequestration of functional algal chloroplasts by a host organism, represents a natural case of photosymbiosis from which the host derives crucial energetic benefits. We explored here how this host-symbiont relationship is affe…
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