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Diversity of herbaceous plants and bacterial communities regulates soil resistome across forest biomes.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2018
Hu Hang-Wei, Wang Jun-Tao, Singh Brajesh K, Liu Yu-Rong, Chen Yong-Liang, Zhang Yu-Jing, He Ji-Zheng
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Antibiotic resistance is ancient and prevalent in natural ecosystems and evolved long before the utilization of synthetic antibiotics started, but factors influencing the large-scale distribution patterns of natural antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) remain largely unknown. Here, a large-scale investigation over 4000 km was performed to profile soil ARGs, plant communities and bacterial communities from 300...
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