Shotgun Metagenomics-Guided Prediction Reveals the Metal Tolerance and Antibiotic Resistance of Microbes in Poly-Extreme Environments in the Danakil Depression, Afar Region
Ermias Sissay Balcha, Felipe Gómez, Mesfin Tafesse Gemeda, Fanuel Belayneh Bekele, Sewunet Abera, Barbara Cavalazzi, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat · 2023
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Description
Seven authors led by Ermias Balcha read the gene mix of microbes in one of the harshest places on Earth. The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia holds salt plains and acid lakes that test life to its edge. Microbes there may carry genes that shrug off both drugs and heavy metals, a pairing of keen health note. Samples came from lake water and salt crust at two sites in the zone.
Gene reads found 81 drug resistance genes and 39 metal resistance genes in all. A copper gene led the metal set, and a key drug class led the drug set. Metal levels, above all mercury, tracked with how many metal genes showed up. Zinc and cadmium tracked with drug genes too, which hints the two sets are picked as one. Web maps link the sets in a tight shared net.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ermias Sissay Balcha, Felipe Gómez, Mesfin Tafesse Gemeda, Fanuel Belayneh Bekele, Sewunet Abera, Barbara Cavalazzi, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |