Long-read-resolved, ecosystem-wide exploration of nucleotide and structural microdiversity of lake bacterioplankton genomes
Y. Okazaki, S.-i. Nakano, A. Toyoda, H. Tamaki
The paper explores microdiversity in lake bacterioplankton genomes using long-read sequencing and identifies factors driving genomic diversification, finding that viral load drives diversity while population bottlenecks constrain it.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2022Microbiology