Unraveling the spread of antibiotic resistance genes across soil food webs

Cross-biome soil viruses as an important reservoir of virulence genes

Li Bi, Li-Li Han, Shuai Du, Dan-Ting Yu, Ji-Zheng He, Li-Mei Zhang, Hang-Wei Hu

2023-01-15

Viruses can significantly influence the composition and functions of their host communities and enhance host pathogenicity via the..

The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Hang-Wei Hu, Fernando T Maestre, Carlos A Guerra, Nico Eisenhauer, David J Eldridge, Yong-Guan Zhu, Qing-Lin Chen, Pankaj Trivedi, Shuai Du, Thulani P Makhalanyane, Jay Prakash Verma, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, Sergio Asensio, Ling Wang, Eli Zaady, Javier G Illan, Christina Siebe, Tine Grebenc

2022-12-12

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the global distribution and environmental drivers of key microbial functional traits such as ant..

Aridity differentially alters the stability of soil bacterial and fungal networks in coastal and inland areas of Australia

Qing-Lin Chen, Qian Xiang, An-Qi Sun, Hang-Wei Hu

2022-09-16

Despite the importance of soil bacterial and fungal communities for ecosystem services and human welfare, how their ecological net..

Calling for comprehensive explorations between soil invertebrates and arbuscular mycorrhizas

Qing-Lin Chen, Hang-Wei Hu, Dong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Ji-Zheng He

2022-07-13

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and soil invertebrates represent a large proportion of total soil biomass and biodiversity and a..

Climate warming increases the proportions of specific antibiotic resistance genes in natural soil ecosystems

Zixin Li, Anqi Sun, Xiaofei Liu, Qing-Lin Chen, Li Bi, Pei-Xin Ren, Ju-Pei Shen, Shengsheng Jin, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu, Yusheng Yang

2022-02-12

Understanding the future distribution of antibiotic resistance in natural soil ecosystems is important to forecast their impacts o..

Aridity decreases soil protistan network complexity and stability

Qing-Lin Chen, Hang-Wei Hu, An-Qi Sun, Yong-Guan Zhu, Ji-Zheng He

2022-02-01

Protists are ubiquitous and abundant in soil and contribute to key ecosystem processes including nutrient cycling and top-down reg..

Livestock manure spiked with the antibiotic tylosin significantly altered soil protist functional groups

Bao-Anh T Nguyen, Qing-Lin Chen, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu

2022-01-25

With the increasing global antibiotic uses in livestock husbandry, animal manures upon land application pose potential threats to ..

Unravelling the ecological complexity of soil viromes: Challenges and opportunities

Li Bi, Dan-Ting Yu, Li-Li Han, Shuai Du, Cheng-Yu Yuan, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu

2021-12-24

Viruses are extremely abundant and ubiquitous in soil, and significantly contribute to various terrestrial ecosystem processes suc..

Distinct factors drive the diversity and composition of protistan consumers and phototrophs in natural soil ecosystems

Bao-Anh Thi Nguyen, Qing-Lin Chen, Zhen-Zhen Yan, Chaoyu Li, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu

2021-06-15

Protists are important microbial consumers and phototrophs in terrestrial ecosystems and play pivotal roles in nutrient cycling an..

Termite mound formation reduces the abundance and diversity of soil resistomes

Zhen-Zhen Yan, Qing-Lin Chen, Chao-Yu Li, Thi Nguyen Bao-Anh, Yong-Guan Zhu, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu

2021-06-15

Termites are pivotal ecosystem engineers in tropical and subtropical habitats, where they construct massive nests (‘mounds’) that ..

Termite mounds reduce soil microbial diversity by filtering rare microbial taxa.

Qing-Lin Chen, Hang-Wei Hu, Zhen-Zhen Yan, Chao-Yu Li, Bao-Anh Thi Nguyen, Yong Zheng, Yong-Guan Zhu, Ji-Zheng He

2021-04-05

Termites are ubiquitous insects in tropical and subtropical habitats, and some of them construct massive nests ('mounds'), which s..

Fertilization alters protistan consumers and parasites in crop-associated microbiomes

Anqi Sun, Xiao-Yan Jiao, Qinglin Chen, Pankaj Trivedi, Zixin Li, Fangfang Li, Yong Zheng, Yongxin Lin, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He

2021-01-12

Crop plants carry an enormous diversity of microbiota that provide massive benefits to hosts. Protists, as the main microbial cons..