Pseudomonas Project PRJNA490067
Project Title | Pseudomonas protegens strain:pf5 Genome sequencing |
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Project Database | BioProject |
Project Accession | PRJNA490067 |
Organism Name | Pseudomonas protegens |
Project Description | Antibiotics can disseminate into the environment and persist at sub-inhibitory concentrations. It is not known what effect such low levels of pollution might have on environmental organisms. Here we have shown that environmental levels of antibiotics can rapidly fix a mutation in an environmental bacterium which correlates with an eight-fold increase in antibiotic resistance. This shows that selection can be driven by low concentrations of antibiotics and suggests that similar selection events could be occurring at a high frequency in all environmental bacteria, disrupting normal microbial processes and contributing to the global problem of antibiotic resistance. |
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Biosamples associated with this project
Link | 1 BioSample(s) |