Biological Principles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjS88Ir1oI

A large-scale analysis of antibiotics in Chinese estuaries shows that human activities increase the presence of ARGs.

Zhu, Y-G et al. (2017). Continental-scale pollution of estuaries with antibiotic resistance genes. Nature Microbiol. 2, 16270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.270

This is an analysis done by team 20 on the population genomic experiment done by BMC. We discuss the evolutionary and ecological results of the experiment.

https://youtu.be/Ut_-bpdcGAA

Works Used

Loreau, M.; Naeem, S.; Inchausti, P.; Bengtsson, J.; Grime, J.P.; Hector, A.; Hooper, D. U.; Huston, M. A.; Raffaelli, D.; Schmid, B.; Tilman, D.; Wardle,   D.A. 2001. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges. Science 294 (5543):804-808. 10.1126/science.1064088

Mortlock, Sally-Anne; Booth, Rachel; Mazrier, Hamutal; Khatkar, Mehar S.; Williamson, Peter. 2016. Visualization of Genome Diversity in German Shepherd Dogs. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 9 (S2):37-42. 10.4137/BBI.S30524 

Van Moorsel, Sofia J.; Hahl, Terhi; Wagg, Cameron; De Deyn, Gerlinde B.; Flynn, Dan F. B.; Yadav, Varuna; Zuppinger-Dingley, Debra; Schmid, Bernhard. 2017. Community selection increases biodiversity effects. bioRxiv 111617. https://doi.org/10.1101/111617