Viral Communities Contribute More to the Lysis of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria than the Transduction of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Anaerobic Digestion Revealed by Metagenomics

• Published in: Environmental science & technology Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 2346 - 2359
• Main Authors: Zhang, Junya, Lu, Tiedong, Song, Yunpeng, Rocha, Ulisses Nunes da, Liu, Jibao, Nikolausz, Marcell, Wei, Yuansong, Richnow, Hans Hermann
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 06.02.2024
• Subjects: Anaerobic digestion; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Bacteria; Bioremediation and Biotechnology; Conjugation; CRISPR; Drug resistance; Gene transfer; Genera; Genes; Genomes; Homology; Horizontal transfer; Infectivity; Lysis; Metagenomics; Phages; Plasmids; tRNA; Viruses; phages; viral community; anaerobic digestion; antibiotic resistance genes; metagenomics

Ecological role of the viral community on the fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) (reduction vs proliferation) remains unclear in anaerobic digestion (AD). Metagenomics revealed a dominance of Siphoviridae and Podoviridae among 13,895 identified viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) withi...