Journal
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
Volume 137, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105554
Keywords
ARGs; Horizontal gene transfer; intI1; Selective effect; Migration; Flume study
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [51609058, 21976079]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China [JZ2019HGTB0064]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, China [2018YFC1801603]
- fund project for independent innovation of agricultural science and technology in Jiangsu province, China [CX(18)2026]
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Antibiotics in aquatic environments at high concentrations and sub-inhibitory concentrations potentially select for the evolution of antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs), posing a potential risk to aquatic ecological safety. Our knowledge of the temporal and successive dynamics of ARGs and bacterial community under the selective pressure of antibiotics in natural water-sediment system was limited. This study used a 120-d operating hydrodynamic mesocosm to explore the temporal dynamics of ARGs in water-sediment systems, and the main selective mechanisms following the attenuation and transport of 14 commonly used antibiotics. Under the selective pressures by antibiotics, ARGs propagated transiently, and persisted after antibiotic removal; the bacterial community structures likewise changed. Mantel test and network analysis indicated that ARGs significantly correlated with the bacterial community in the water and surface sediments. Structural equation model (SEM) further revealed that the evolution of ARGs was mainly due to the direct effect of the change in bacterial community and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) via the class 1 integron-integrase gene (intI1), but antibiotics indirectly influenced ARG profiles. The migration of ARGs in deep layer sediments was not related to the bacterial community and intI1, but may be explained by antibiotic selective effects and ARG transformation.
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