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Erik Kristiansson is affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. The primary fields of study for this researcher are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 64 publications, and Environmental Science, with 42 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Pollution, Plant Science, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The main topics that characterize Kristiansson's research include:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kristiansson include:

  • D. G. Joakim Larsson
  • Anna Johnning
  • Mikael Gustavsson
  • Stefan Ebmeyer
  • David Lund

The predominant venues for publishing research findings include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Biology
  • MycoKeys
  • Environment International

Recent publications by Erik Kristiansson demonstrate a strong focus on microbiology and antibiotic resistance, with notable papers including:

  • "The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "A framework for identifying the recent origins of mobile antibiotic resistance genes," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "The Association between Insertion Sequences and Antibiotic Resistance Genes," 2020, mSphere
  • "Latent antibiotic resistance genes are abundant, diverse, and mobile in human, animal, and environmental microbiomes," 2023, Microbiome
  • "Predicting clinical resistance prevalence using sewage metagenomic data," 2020, Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Ryberg;Martin Hartmann;Sara Branco

  • Intraspecific ITS Variability in the Kingdom Fungi as Expressed in the International Sequence Databases and Its Implications for Molecular Species Identification

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Erik Kristiansson;Martin Ryberg;Nils Hallenberg

  • Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Erik Kristiansson;Erik Kristiansson;D G Joakim Larsson

  • BacMet: antibacterial biocide and metal resistance genes database

    Chandan Pal;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Christopher Rensing;Erik Kristiansson

  • Taxonomic reliability of DNA sequences in public sequence databases: a fungal perspective.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Martin Ryberg;Erik Kristiansson;Kessy Abarenkov

  • Co-occurrence of resistance genes to antibiotics, biocides and metals reveals novel insights into their co-selection potential

    Chandan Pal;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Erik Kristiansson;D. G. Joakim Larsson

  • Pyrosequencing of Antibiotic-Contaminated River Sediments Reveals High Levels of Resistance and Gene Transfer Elements

    Erik Kristiansson;Erik Kristiansson;Jerker Fick;Anders Janzon;Roman Grabic

  • Evolutionary Conservation of Human Drug Targets in Organisms used for Environmental Risk Assessments

    Lina-Maria Gunnarsson;Alexandra Jauhiainen;Erik Kristiansson;Olle Nerman

  • The structure and diversity of human, animal and environmental resistomes

    Chandan Pal;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Erik Kristiansson;Erik Kristiansson;D. G. Joakim Larsson

  • The ITS region as a target for characterization of fungal communities using emerging sequencing technologies

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Martin Ryberg;Kessy Abarenkov;Elisabet Sjökvist

  • Shotgun metagenomics reveals a wide array of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile elements in a polluted lake in India

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Fredrik Boulund;Jerker Fick;Erik Kristiansson

  • Elucidating selection processes for antibiotic resistance in sewage treatment plants using metagenomics

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Rickard Hammarén;Chandan Pal;Marcus Östman

  • A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Martin Ryberg;Erik Kristiansson

  • The Human Gut Microbiome as a Transporter of Antibiotic Resistance Genes between Continents

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Angelin;Mikael Huss;Sanela Kjellqvist

  • An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

    R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Vilmar Veldre;Martin Hartmann;Martin Unterseher

  • Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov;Martin Ryberg

  • Fluoroquinolones and qnr genes in sediment, water, soil, and human fecal flora in an environment polluted by manufacturing discharges.

    Carolin Rutgersson;Jerker Fick;Nachiket Marathe;Erik Kristiansson

  • Untreated urban waste contaminates Indian river sediments with resistance genes to last resort antibiotics

    Nachiket P. Marathe;Chandan Pal;Swapnil S. Gaikwad;Viktor Jonsson

  • Mining metadata from unidentified ITS sequences in GenBank: a case study in Inocybe (Basidiomycota)

    Martin Ryberg;R Henrik Nilsson;Erik Kristiansson;Mats Töpel

  • ShotgunFunctionalizeR: an R-package for functional comparison of metagenomes

    Erik Kristiansson;Philip Hugenholtz;Daniel Dalevi

Frequent Co-Authors

D. G. Joakim Larsson
D. G. Joakim Larsson University of Gothenburg
Lars Förlin
Lars Förlin University of Gothenburg
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Edward R. B. Moore
Edward R. B. Moore University of Gothenburg
Jerker Fick
Jerker Fick Umeå University
Kessy Abarenkov
Kessy Abarenkov University of Tartu
Ola Nilsson
Ola Nilsson Karolinska Institute
Karl-Henrik Larsson
Karl-Henrik Larsson University of Oslo
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu

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