Metagenomic analysis reveals houseflies as indicators for monitoring environmental antibiotic resistance genes
Yuhan Yang, Ping Xu, Wei He, Fei Tao · 2024
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Yuhan Yang, Ping Xu, Wei He, and Fei Tao propose using houseflies as living samplers of drug resistance genes in the environment. Their study was published in twenty twenty-four. Flies are everywhere, pick up germs and genes on their bodies, and move them around, which makes them handy watch tools.
The team read all the DNA on fly body surfaces from five sites tied to human activity. Germ mixes differed by site, and so did the resistance genes found. The gene mix on flies seemed shaped by the genes around each site, and some were enriched on the flies. Genes against several drug classes dominated, above all those for multi-drug resistance. Gene loads also tracked how many people lived near a site and how much they moved. The authors back flies as cheap sentinels for resistance spread.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuhan Yang, Ping Xu, Wei He, Fei Tao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |