Detection of pathogens, parasites, and other symbionts in environmental samples via
eDNA/eRNA (collectively eNA) is an increasingly important source of information about their …

Approximately 9 million metric tons of plastics enters the ocean annually, and once in the
marine environment, plastic surfaces can be quickly colonised by marine microorganisms …

Prophages are prevalent among bacterial species, including strains carrying antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs). Prophage induction can be triggered by the SOS response to …

Numerous studies have investigated the spatiotemporal variability in water microbial
communities, yet the effects of relic DNA on microbial community profiles, especially …

Simple Summary The innovative concept of environmental DNA has found its foot in aquatic
ecosystems but remains an unexplored area of research concerning terrestrial ecosystems …

Identification of emerging disinfection byproducts (DBPs) of health relevance is important to
uncover the health risk of drinking water observed in epidemiology studies. In this study …

Plasmid pBI143 has recently been identified as being highly abundant in the human gut
microbiome, suggesting potential as a fecal water quality indicator and normalization marker …

Human health risk assessment for environmental antibiotic resistant microbes requires not
only quantifying the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in environmental …

Contaminants in the environment can increase natural transformation rates in bacteria.
However, the co-occurrence of a large suite of contaminants may result in final …

Transformation represents one of the most important pathways for the horizontal transfer of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which enables competent bacteria to acquire …