A reservoir of 'historical' antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils.

Marc W Van GoethemRian PierneefOliver K I BezuidtYves Van De PeerDon A CowanThulani Peter Makhalanyane

Published in: Microbiome (2018)

ARGs in these remote and uncontaminated soils most likely represent functional efficient historical genes that have since been vertically inherited over generations. The historical ARGs in these pristine environments carry a strong phylogenetic signal and form a monophyletic group relative to ARGs from other similar environments.

Keyphrases

antibiotic resistance genes
wastewater treatment
microbial community
heavy metals
anaerobic digestion
human health
risk assessment
walled carbon nanotubes
organic matter
gene expression
genome wide identification