Dataset for Acanthochromis microplastic lab study 2019

The current study experimentally explored the influence of periodic consumption of polystyrene (PS) microplastic fragments on the body condition and fitness of a tropical marine fish. Adult damselfish, <em>Acanthochromis polyacanthus</em>, were pulse fed microplastic fragments bound with one of two different common plasticizers (DEHP or DEHT) together with virgin-plastic and no-plastic controls. Ingestion of plastic over a 150d period had no detectable effect on growth, indices of body condition, or gonadosomatic indices. Histology of the liver showed no detrimental effects of ingesting any of the plastic treatments on hepatocyte density or vacuolation. Plastic consumption also had no effects on the number of clutches produced over the breeding period, the number of eggs or the survival of the embryos.