Resistome
The full collection of antimicrobial-resistance genes within a community or ecosystem.
At a glance
Key signals
50% cross fields · reaches 2 more
- Microbiology
- Public Health
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations 2
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
Foundations · builds on
Resistomeemerges fromHorizontal gene transferEstablished
Open Horizontal gene transfer →
resistome emerges from horizontal gene transfer.
Mechanism: Mobile elements connect resistance genes across reservoirs.
- Antimicrobial resistance — WHO fact sheet (2025) verifiedstrong evidence
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
System context
Resistomeis part ofMicrobial communityEstablished
resistome is part of a microbial community.
Mechanism: The resistome is the resistance-gene layer of a community.
- Antimicrobial resistance — WHO fact sheet (2025) verifiedstrong evidence
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
50% of its relationships cross field boundaries, reaching 2 other disciplines — unusual in a discipline where most concepts stay within their field.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 2 of 2 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Builds on 1 foundation (requires / depends-on / derived-from / emerges-from).
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Structural neighbourhood: 2 → 18 → 72 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
cross-field
1 within-field, 1 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Strengths
- Cross-disciplinary connector — 50% of its relationships cross field boundaries. structural
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Its dependency reading rests on 1 foundation relation. structural
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Dependency radial
What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Through this lens it connects to Microbial community.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Variation & selection12 disciplines · 12 concepts
Concepts
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Mental models at work here
- Connects 2 other ideas across 2 disciplines.
- A cross-disciplinary bridge — its connections reach into 2 other fields.
- Most of its connections are of the “Kind & structure” kind.
- It exercises 1 reusable thinking pattern.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Antimicrobial resistance — WHO fact sheet (2025) verifiedstrong evidence
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence