Effects of low dose silver nanoparticle treatment on the structure and community composition of bacterial freshwater biofilms.

The application of engineered silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in a considerable amount of registered commercial products inevitably will result in the continuous release of AgNPs into the natural aquatic environment. Therefore, native biofilms, as the prominent life form of microorganisms in almost all...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Alexandra Y Grün, Constantin B App, Andreas Breidenbach, Jutta Meier, George Metreveli, Gabriele E Schaumann, Werner Manz
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199132&type=printable