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Microplastic effect data. The world is your oyster: low-dose, long-term microplastic exposure of juvenile oysters

Publisher
Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Updated
23 July 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

This dataset contains three separate files form an eighty day exposure study where we exposed juvenile oysters, Crassotrea gigas, to 3 different MP concentrations (10Power4, 10Power5, 10Power6 particles LPower minus 1), represented by 6 Microns Polysyrene (PS) microbeads, compared to a control treatment receiving no MP. There is a data file for shell growth and length, one for condition index and one for lysosomal stability.

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2024
Harvest GUID
CEFAS11ebd3ad-c4fb-4b58-85de-118da2fbed08
Extent (Latitude)
52.4595° to 52.4581°
Extent (Longitude)
1.73881° to 1.74086°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2019-12-18
Dataset reference date (revision)
2024-07-24
Dataset reference date (creation)
2019-12-12
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) (originator, custodian, distributor); European Commission (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng