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Inferring antibiotic resistance selection in the environment can be confounded by correlations between resistance genes and unrelated functional traits
Cansu Uluşeker, Sébastien Raguideau, Christopher Quince, Jan‐Ulrich Kreft
The paper shows that changes in ARG abundance in environmental studies may be due to community shifts rather than antibiotic selection, using correlations with ribosomal RNA genes.
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