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Table 1 ARG and ARG family frequencies and relative abundances found across the 17 sites

From: A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils

Sample site

Different ARGs

Unique ARGs

Total ARGs

Relative abundancea

Different ARG families

Unique ARG families

Total ARG families

Relative abundancea

BG12-3

3

0

3

1.34e−05

2

0

3

0.67

MS2-2

2

0

2

1.34e−05

2

0

2

1.0

MS4-1

10

4

12

2.02e−05

8

1

12

0.8

MS3-5

2

1

2

1.64e−05

2

0

2

1.0

TG1-5

8

3

8

2.87e−05

6

0

8

0.75

MGM-3

16

7

21

3.74e−05

11

1

21

0.6875

MS6-5

10

3

11

3.08e−05

5

0

11

0.5

MS1-1

7

2

7

2.19e−05

6

2

7

0.86

MG3-2

7

3

7

3.81e−05

6

0

7

0.86

MtG22-5

5

1

6

2.68e−05

4

0

6

0.8

MS7-5

3

1

3

2.01e−05

2

0

3

0.67

PT-2

14

5

20

3.38e−05

7

0

20

0.5

MS5-1

16

6

16

2.90e−05

10

0

16

0.63

TG5-1

9

4

9

2.35e−05

6

1

9

0.67

CN-4

15

5

18

5.68e−05

10

2

18

0.67

MtG-4

11

2

18

2.20e−05

5

0

18

0.45

MG6-4

11

3

14

4.38e−05

6

0

14

0.55

  1. aRelative abundancy is calculated as the total number of ARG divided by the number of genes predicted per sampled site