Single cell genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and sympatric microbes from diverse marine environments.

ABSTRACT: Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the dominant primary producers in marine ecosystems and perform a significant fraction of ocean carbon fixation. These cyanobacteria interact with a diverse microbial community that coexists with them. Comparative genomics of cultivated isolates has helped address questions regarding patterns of evolution and diversity among microbes, but the fraction that can be cultivated is miniscule compared to the diversity in the wild. To further probe the diversity of these groups and extend the utility of reference sequence databases, we report a data set of single cell genomes for 489 Prochlorococcus, 50 Synechococcus, 9 extracellular virus particles, and 190 additional microorganisms from a diverse range of bacterial, archaeal, and viral groups. Many of these

SUBMITTER: Berube PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6122165 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature