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SUBMITTER: Gillings MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4438328 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gillings Michael R MR Gaze William H WH Pruden Amy A Smalla Kornelia K Tiedje James M JM Zhu Yong-Guan YG
The ISME journal 20141212 6
Around all human activity, there are zones of pollution with pesticides, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and the microorganisms associated with human waste streams and agriculture. This diversity of pollutants, whose concentration varies spatially and temporally, is a major challenge for monitoring. Here, we suggest that the relative abundance of the clinical class 1 integron-integrase gene, intI1, is a good proxy for pollution because: (1) intI1 is linked to genes conferri ...[more]