Biogeographical Patterns of Bacterial Communities and Their Antibiotic Resistomes in the Inland Waters of Southeast China.

ABSTRACT: Freshwater ecosystems are important sources of drinking water and provide natural settings for the proliferation and dissemination of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, the biogeographical patterns of ARGs in natural freshwaters and their relationships with the bacterial community at large scales are largely understudied. This is of specific importance because data on ARGs in environments with low anthropogenic impact is still very limited. We characterized the biogeographical patterns of bacterial communities and their ARG profiles in 24 reservoirs across southeast China using 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing and high-throughput-quantitative PCR, respectively. We found that the composition of both bacterial communities and ARG profiles exhibited a significan

SUBMITTER: Fang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9430403 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature