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Fragmented Microplastics Synergize with Biological Treatment to Potentiate Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination during Sewage Treatment
Summary
This repository provides supplementary data and analysis scripts for a study showing that fragmented microplastics synergize with biological wastewater treatment processes to enhance antibiotic resistance dissemination. Datasets include normalized abundance matrices for ARGs, MGEs, and virulence factor genes, along with metagenome-assembled genomes and R scripts for source tracking and ecological modeling.
This repository contains the supplementary data and analysis scripts for the manuscript "Fragmented Microplastics Synergize with Biological Treatment to Potentiate Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination during Sewage Treatment"It includes:1. Processed abundance matrices (TPM normalized) for ARGs, MGEs, and VFGs.2.Fasta sequences of high-quality Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs).3.R scripts used for FEAST, Random Forest, and NCM/NST analyses.
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