Zhongmei Lin

Pollution duration drives divergent pathways of antibiotic and metal resistance gene dissemination in coastal mangrove sediments

Coastal mangrove sediments are critical reservoirs of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes (ARGs/HMRGs). Yet, how pollution history shapes their dissemination remains unclear. We elucidated this by comparing sedimentary resistomes across three distinct ecosystems: a pristi...