Marine Environmental Research 

TL;DR: It is proposed that energy-related biomarkers can be used to determine the conditions when these metabolic transitions occur and thus predict ecological consequences of stress exposures, and assist in explaining and predicting the species' distribution limits in the face of the environmental change and informing the conservation efforts and resource management practices.

TL;DR: This spectrophotometric method allows the simple, repeatable and low cost detection of minimal concentrations (nmoles) of metallothionein in biological samples and therefore it is suggested as a tool for metallothsionein quantification in eco-toxicological investigations and biomonitoring programmes.

TL;DR: Investigations on temporal trends, geographical distribution and global cycle of plastics have management implications when defining the origin, possible drifting tracks and ecological consequences of such pollution, and the fate and impact of microplastics in the marine environment are still far to be fully clarified.

TL;DR: There is a clear need for a standardized techniques, unified reporting units and more realistic effect assessments of the possible adverse effects of microplastics in sediments, according to this review.

TL;DR: Caution should be taken in monitoring studies where mRNA levels of antioxidants could represent a snapshot of cell activity at a given time, not an effective endpoint of environmental pollutants, and conflicting results between molecular and biochemical responses are quite frequent.