With a 135 complete, circular Pelagibacter genomes, we have answered some of the most outstanding questions about what is often considered the most abundant organism on the planet, with roughly 10 million times more individuals in the ocean than stars in the universe. Check out our preprint.

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pelagibacter, resolved https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716430v1

What happens when you use a strain-resolved assembler on 720 Gbp of Nanopore metagenome sequence? Simultaneous strain-level resolution of multiple co-occurring lineages from hundreds of single contig high-quality genomes, including 78 Pelagibacter. @tnn1.bsky.social and myself:

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Contrasting population structures coexist in a strain-resolved estuarine microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713316v1