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Exposure to Arsenic Alters the Microbiome of Larval Zebrafish

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2018
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Title
Exposure to Arsenic Alters the Microbiome of Larval Zebrafish
Published in
Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2018
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01323
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Authors

Dylan Dahan, Brooke A. Jude, Regina Lamendella, Felicia Keesing, Gabriel G. Perron

Abstract

Exposure to environmental toxins such as heavy metals can perturb the development and stability of microbial communities associated with human or animal hosts. Widespread arsenic contamination in rivers and riparian habitats therefore presents environmental and health concerns for populations living near sources of contamination. To investigate how arsenic affects host microbiomes, we sequenced and characterized the microbiomes of twenty larval zebrafish exposed to three concentrations of arsenic that are found in contaminated water-low (10 ppb), medium (50 ppb), and high (100 ppb) for 20 days. We found that even a small concentration of arsenic changed the overall microbial composition, structure and diversity of microbial communities, causing dysbiosis in developing larval zebrafish microbiota. In addition, we found that a high concentration of arsenic also increased the abundance of a class 1 integron, an integrase-dependent system facilitating the horizontal transfer of genes conferring resistance to heavy metals and antibiotics.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 19%
Researcher 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Student > Postgraduate 6 7%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 11 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 19%
Environmental Science 9 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 5%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 19 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 January 2019.
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#16,237,207
of 24,901,761 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#15,765
of 28,458 outputs
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#201,588
of 334,102 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#410
of 710 outputs
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