Genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, bacteria, and viruses recovered from marine picocyanobacteria cultures based on Illumina and Qitan nanopore sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are key contributors to marine primary production and play essential roles in global biogeochemical cycles. Despite the ecological importance of these two picocyanobacterial genera, current genomic datasets still lack comprehensive representation of under-sampled ocean regions, associated bacteria and viruses. To address this gap, we used a combination of second- and third-generation sequencing technologies to assemble comprehensive genomic data from 105 Picocyanobacterial enrichment cultures isolated from the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea, and the western Pacific Ocean. This dataset includes 55 Prochlorococcus and 50 Synechococcus genomes with high completeness (>98%) and low contamination (<2%), along with 308 non-redundant associated bacterial genom

SUBMITTER: Wu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11993695 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature