# Recovery of 26 metagenome-assembled genomes from the phycosphere of the marine diatom Skeletonema tropicum

## TL;DR

Scientists recovered 26 high-quality genomes from the marine diatom Skeletonema tropicum's surrounding microbiota, which can help study their interactions.

## Contribution

The study presents 26 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from the phycosphere of Skeletonema tropicum.

## Key findings

- Most MAGs were highly complete (>90%) with minimal contamination (<5%).
- The MAGs can serve as reference genomes for studying interactions between Skeletonema and its phycosphere microbiota.

## Abstract

Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered from the phycosphere of marine diatom Skeletonema tropicum, which has been long-term maintained in artificial seawater. Most MAGs were found to be highly complete (>90%) with minimum contaminations (<5%), which could serve as reference genomes to investigate the interactions between Skeletonema and their phycosphere microbiota.