A glyphosate-based herbicide cross-selects for antibiotic resistance genes in bacterioplankton communities
N. Barbosa da Costa, M.-P. Hebert, V. Fugere, Y. Terrat, G. Fussmann, A. Gonzalez, B. J. Shapiro
This study shows that glyphosate-based herbicides increase antibiotic resistance gene frequencies in freshwater bacterioplankton by selecting for multidrug efflux pumps.
bioRxiv · Dec 13, 2021 · PreprintMicrobiology