ArticleScientific reports2017
Fungal networks serve as novel ecological routes for enrichment and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes as exhibited by microcosm experiments.
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- Shotgun metagenomics reveals antibiotic resistome dynamics and metabolic specialization in fungal-dominated microbiomes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Social demographics determinants for resistome and microbiome variation of a multiethnic community in Southern Malaysia.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2023Article
- A Novel One Health Approach concerning Yeast Present in the Oral Microbiome of the Endangered Rio Skate (Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Transmission of tetracycline resistance genes and microbiomes from manure-borne black soldier fly larvae frass to rhizosphere soil and pakchoi endophytes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Cross-kingdom co-occurrence networks in the plant microbiome: Importance and ecological interpretations.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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- Horizontal Gene Transfer: From Evolutionary Flexibility to Disease Progression.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Review
- The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly.Movement ecology · 2019Review
- Emergent Properties of Microbial Activity in Heterogeneous Soil Microenvironments: Different Research Approaches Are Slowly Converging, Yet Major Challenges Remain.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment and their subsequent acquisition by clinically important microorganisms are a serious concern. However, the spread of environmental ARGs remain largely unknown. We report, for the first time, the involvement of soil fungi in the distribution of bacteria with ARGs via soil microcosms. qPCR assay detected unique ARGs specifically found in the mycosphere of different fungi. Interestingly, the taxonomically and ecologically different fungi exerted different selection pressures on ARGs originating from the same source. Test fungi supported different antibiotic resistance bacteria enriched in the mycosphere and even transported to distant places. The relative abundance of the tnpA gene decreased, for manure, along mycelial networks of all fungi. While the fungal strain NFC-5 enriched the intI1 gene more, opposite to two other fungi at the migration front compared with the inoculation point for both sources. Such data indicate the differential effect of different fungi to facilitate horizontal gene transfer potential under fungal selection pressure. Our study provides the evidence that fungi can contribute ARGs, host bacterial diversity and abundance, and such interactive microbial consortia have the potential to disseminate the resistance determinants from one place to another, thus increasing the ARGs exposure risk to humans.
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