Abstract:With the wide use of tetracyclines in the livestock and poultry industries, animal manure has become an important reservoir for tetracyclines and tetracycline resistance genes. The direct application of untreated manure will shade great potential risks for ecological environment and human health. Composting processes (including aerobic composting, anaerobic digestion and anaerobic lagoon, etc.) are important technologies for biotreatment of animal manure. Recent process on studies of the removal effects of tetracyclines and resistance genes in animal manure by different composting processes, the microbial degradation mechanism of tetracyclines during composting and the microbial ecological mechanism and strategies for controlling the proliferation of tetracycline resistance genes by composting were reviewed. Finally, suggestion of controlling tetracycline and resistance genes by using thermal hydrolysis pretreatment and anaerobic composting processes and strategy of dynamically exploring the removal mechanism of resistance genes during composting using high-throughput techniques were proposed.