Data-mining of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Provides Insight into the Community Structure of Ocean Microbiome
Shiguang Hao, Pengshuo Yang, Maozhen Han, Junjie Xu, Shaojun Yu, Chaoyun Chen, Wei-Hua Chen, Houjin Zhang, Kang Ning
The paper analyzes marine antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their associations with bacterial communities using Tara Oceans metagenomic data, finding higher ARG abundance and diversity in mesopelagic zones and ARG-enriched genera being more abundant than their ARG-less counterparts.
bioRxiv · Jan 10, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology