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Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms by Arianna Bellasi, Gilberto Binda, Andrea Pozzi, Silvia Galafassi, Pietro Volta, Roberta Bettinetti

“…Plastic is one of the most commonly produced and used materials in the world due to its outstanding features. However, the worldwide use of plastics and poor…”
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Effluents of wastewater treatment plants promote the rapid stabilization of the antibiotic resistome in receiving freshwater bodies by Corno, Gianluca, Yang, Ying, Eckert, Ester M., Fontaneto, Diego, Fiorentino, Antonino, Galafassi, Silvia, Zhang, Tong, Di Cesare, Andrea

“…Treated wastewater discharged into the environment acts as a disturbance of the natural microbial communities in terms of taxonomic composition and of…”
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Lipid production for second generation biodiesel by the oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula graminis by Galafassi, Silvia, Cucchetti, Daniela, Pizza, Francesca, Franzosi, Giuliana, Bianchi, Daniele, Compagno, Concetta

“…The increasing cost of vegetable oils is turning the use of microbial lipids into a competitive alternative for the production of biodiesel fuel. The…”
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Do Freshwater Fish Eat Microplastics? A Review with A Focus on Effects on Fish Health and Predictive Traits of MPs Ingestion by Silvia Galafassi, Claudia Campanale, Carmine Massarelli, Vito Felice Uricchio, Pietro Volta

“…Microplastics (MPs) have received increasing attention in the last decade and are now considered among the most concerning emerging pollutants in natural…”
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Engineering cytoplasmic acetyl-CoA synthesis decouples lipid production from nitrogen starvation in the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium azoricum by Donzella, Silvia, Cucchetti, Daniela, Capusoni, Claudia, Rizzi, Aurora, Galafassi, Silvia, Chiara, Gambaro, Compagno, Concetta

“…Oleaginous yeasts are able to accumulate very high levels of neutral lipids especially under condition of excess of carbon and nitrogen limitation (medium with…”
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Microplastic retention in small and medium municipal wastewater treatment plants and the role of the disinfection by Galafassi, Silvia, Di Cesare, Andrea, Di Nardo, Lorenzo, Sabatino, Raffaella, Valsesia, Andrea, Fumagalli, Francesco Sirio, Corno, Gianluca, Volta, Pietro

“…Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) efficiently retain microplastic particles (MPs) generated within urban areas. Among the wastewater treatment steps,…”
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Freshwater plastisphere: a review on biodiversity, risks, and biodegradation potential with implications for the aquatic ecosystem health by Bocci, Valerio, Galafassi, Silvia, Levantesi, Caterina, Crognale, Simona, Amalfitano, Stefano, Congestri, Roberta, Matturro, Bruna, Rossetti, Simona, Di Pippo, Francesca

“…The plastisphere, a unique microbial biofilm community colonizing plastic debris and microplastics (MPs) in aquatic environments, has attracted increasing…”
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Parallel evolution of the make–accumulate–consume strategy in Saccharomyces and Dekkera yeasts by Rozpędowska, Elżbieta, Hellborg, Linda, Ishchuk, Olena P., Orhan, Furkan, Galafassi, Silvia, Merico, Annamaria, Woolfit, Megan, Compagno, Concetta, Piškur, Jure

“…Saccharomyces yeasts degrade sugars to two-carbon components, in particular ethanol, even in the presence of excess oxygen. This characteristic is called the…”
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Coevolution with bacteria drives the evolution of aerobic fermentation in Lachancea kluyveri by Zhou, Nerve, Swamy, Krishna B S, Leu, Jun-Yi, McDonald, Michael J, Galafassi, Silvia, Compagno, Concetta, Piškur, Jure

“…The Crabtree positive yeasts, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, prefer fermentation to respiration, even under fully aerobic conditions. The selective…”
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Cloning the putative gene of vinyl phenol reductase of Dekkera bruxellensis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Romano, Diego, Valdetara, Federica, Zambelli, Paolo, Galafassi, Silvia, De Vitis, Valerio, Molinari, Francesco, Compagno, Concetta, Foschino, Roberto, Vigentini, Ileana

“…Vinylphenol reductase of Dekkera bruxellensis, the characteristic enzyme liable for “Brett” sensory modification of wine, has been recently recognized to…”
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Size-age population structure of an endangered and anthropogenically introgressed northern Adriatic population of marble trout ( Salmo marmoratus Cuv.): insights for its conservation and sustainable exploitation by Polgar, Gianluca, Iaia, Mattia, Sala, Paolo, Khang, Tsung Fei, Galafassi, Silvia, Zaupa, Silvia, Volta, Pietro

“…Salmonid species are main actors in the Italian socio-ecological landscape of inland fisheries. We present novel data on the size-age structure of one of the…”
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A new chemoenzymatic approach to the synthesis of Latanoprost and Bimatoprost by Contente, Martina Letizia, Zambelli, Paolo, Galafassi, Silvia, Tamborini, Lucia, Pinto, Andrea, Conti, Paola, Molinari, Francesco, Romano, Diego

“…•New enzymatic steps in the synthesis of Latanoprost and Bimatoprost are developed.•Synthesis can be addressed modulating kind and concentration of…”
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Plastic sources: A survey across scientific and grey literature for their inventory and relative contribution to microplastics pollution in natural environments, with an emphasis on surface water by Galafassi, Silvia, Nizzetto, Luca, Volta, Pietro

“…Plastic debris are at present recognized as an emerging potential threat for natural environments, wildlife and humans. In the past years an increasing…”
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Microplastics pollution in the terrestrial environments: Poorly known diffuse sources and implications for plants by Campanale, Claudia, Galafassi, Silvia, Savino, Ilaria, Massarelli, Carmine, Ancona, Valeria, Volta, Pietro, Uricchio, Vito Felice

“…Research on microplastics (MPs) in the terrestrial environment is currently at a still embryonal stage. The current knowledge concerning poorly known diffuse…”
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Interconnected impacts of water resource management and climate change on microplastic pollution and riverine biocoenosis: A review by freshwater ecologists by Quadroni, Silvia, Cesarini, Giulia, De Santis, Vanessa, Galafassi, Silvia

“…The relationship between river hydrology and microplastic (MP) pollution is complex: increased discharge does not always mobilize more MPs, but floods can…”
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A critical review of biodegradable plastic mulch films in agriculture: Definitions, scientific background and potential impacts by Campanale, Claudia, Galafassi, Silvia, Di Pippo, Francesca, Pojar, Iulian, Massarelli, Carmine, Uricchio, Vito Felice

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Microplastics removal in wastewater treatment plants: A review of the different approaches to limit their release in the environment by Carnevale Miino, Marco, Galafassi, Silvia, Zullo, Rosa, Torretta, Vincenzo, Rada, Elena Cristina

“…In last 10 years, the interest about the presence of microplastics (MPs) in the environment has strongly grown. Wastewaters function as a carrier for MPs…”
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Photosynthetic characteristics and diversity of freshwater Synechococcus at two depths during different mixing conditions in a deep oligotrophic lake by CALLIERI, Cristiana, CORNO, Gianluca, CARAVATI, Emanuele, GALAFASSI, Silvia, BOTTINELLI, Michel, BERTONI, Roberto

“…We studied the photosynthetic characteristics and genetic diversity of Synechococcus assemblages at two different light and mixing conditions in a deep…”
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Contribution of microplastic particles to the spread of resistances and pathogenic bacteria in treated wastewaters by Galafassi, Silvia, Sabatino, Raffaella, Sathicq, María Belén, Eckert, Ester M., Fontaneto, Diego, Dalla Fontana, Giulia, Mossotti, Raffaella, Corno, Gianluca, Volta, Pietro, Di Cesare, Andrea

“…Microplastic Particles (MPs) are ubiquitous pollutants widely found in aquatic ecosystems. Although MPs are mostly retained in wastewater treatment plants…”
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Monthly variability of floating plastic contamination in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy) by Binelli, Andrea, Magni, Stefano, Della Torre, Camilla, Sbarberi, Riccardo, Cremonesi, Cristina, Galafassi, Silvia

“…The monitoring of plastics in freshwater ecosystems has witnessed a significant increase in recent years, driven by the awareness that approximately 80 % of…”
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