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MICROBIOME
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01261-8
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Gut microbiota; Fungicide; Manure; Soil animal; Antibiotic resistance genes; Mobile genetic elements
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资金
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [41877144, 42177252]
- Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China [LZ21B070002]
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Research and Development Program of China [2018C02034]
CBD residues have significant effects on the gut microbiome and resistome in earthworms, leading to increased abundance and diversity of antibiotic resistance genes. This enhancement effect is attributed to the stress on the gut microbiome caused by CBD and facilitated dissemination of resistance genes through mobile genetic elements.
Background: It is worrisome that several pollutants can enhance the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment, including agricultural fungicides. As an important bioindicator for environmental risk assessment, earthworm is still a neglected focus that the effects of the fungicide carbendazim (CBD) residues on the gut microbiome and resistome are largely unknown. In this study, Eisenia fetida was selected to investigate the effects of CBD in the soil-earthworm systems using shotgun metagenomics and qPCR methods. Results: CBD could significantly perturb bacterial community and enrich specific bacteria mainly belonging to the phylum Actinobacteria. More importantly, CBD could serve as a co-selective agent to elevate the abundance and diversity of ARGs, particularly for some specific types (e.g., multidrug, glycopeptide, tetracycline, and rifamycin resistance genes) in the earthworm gut. Additionally, host tracking analysis suggested that ARGs were mainly carried in some genera of the phyla Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria. Meanwhile, the level of ARGs was positively relevant to the abundance of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) and some representative co-occurrence patterns of ARGs and MGEs (e.g., cmx-transposase and sul1-integrase) were further found on the metagenome-assembled contigs in the CBD treatments. Conclusions: It can be concluded that the enhancement effect of CBD on the resistome in the earthworm gut may be attributed to its stress on the gut microbiome and facilitation on the ARGs dissemination mediated by MGEs, which may provide a novel insight into the neglected ecotoxicological risk of the widely used agrochemicals on the gut resistome of earthworm dwelling in soil.
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