EcologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewed
Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analysis
François Enault, Arnaud Briet, Léa Bouteille…·Marie-Agnès Petit
The paper assesses antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) presence in phage genomes and finds that exploratory methods overestimate ARG abundance, with experimental validation showing few ARG confer resistance.