Journal article
Distribution and succession feature of antibiotic resistance genes along a soil development chronosequence in urumqi no.1 glacier of China
JP Shen, ZM Li, HW Hu, J Zeng, LM Zhang, S Du, JZ He
Frontiers in Microbiology | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | Published : 2019
Abstract
Primary succession of plant and microbial communities in the glacier retreating foreland has been extensively studied, but shifts of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) with the glacier retreating due to global warming remain elusive. Unraveling the diversity and succession features of ARGs in pristine soil during glacier retreating could contribute to a mechanistic understanding of the evolution and development of soil resistome. In this study, we quantified the abundance and diversity of ARGs along a 50-year soil development chronosequence by using a high-throughput quantitative PCR (HT-qPCR) technique. A total of 24 ARGs and two mobile genetic elements (MGEs) were detected from all the gla..
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Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (2019QZKK0306), the Program of Intergovernmental Cooperation in Science and Technology (2017YFE0109800), National Natural Science Foundation of China (41571248), and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013CB956300).