diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 3b5b311b629a32f00a8b6ff9e1d1920f3bdceaae..a87f056f501f1c60e45a81cd45614b666e44e587 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ import(DECIPHER)
 import(GenomicRanges)
 import(ape)
 import(cowplot)
-import(dplyr)
 import(ggdendro)
 import(ggtree)
 import(phangorn)
diff --git a/R/meshclustR.R b/R/meshclustR.R
index 529dd1ac2e7c6445f1b83f75e797aed0cd2ea4cd..53f2fc53f440f9c9ed46a7fc25dd6c6b3703bed7 100644
--- a/R/meshclustR.R
+++ b/R/meshclustR.R
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #' meshclustR(seqs = MyDNAStringSet, meshclust_bin = meshclust, filepath = path)
 #' @import Biostrings
 #' @import tidyverse
-#' @import dplyr
 #' @export
 meshclustR <- function(seqs = MyDNAStringSet,
                        meshclust_bin = meshclust,
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ meshclustR <- function(seqs = MyDNAStringSet,
                                col_names = c('cluster', 'seqnames',
                                              'identity_with_center', 'cluster_class'),
                                col_types = 'fcdc') %>%
-    mutate(seqnames = str_remove(seqnames, '>'))
+    dplyr::mutate(seqnames = str_remove(seqnames, '>'))
 
   #clean up temp file and output file
   file.remove(temp_file, out_file)