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David A N Ross1,2, Jocelyn Lauzon2, Vladimir Makarenkov1
1Département d'informatique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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The phyllosphere is host to diverse microbial communities surviving in dynamic environmental conditions and which form important relationships with their hosts. Here, we constructed metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from 25 temperate forest phyllosphere samples collected in Eastern Canada. We found 423 dereplicated MAGs with completeness ≥50% and contamination ≤10%, using a combination of co-assembly strategies. The MAGs were predominantly classified into the bacterial phyla Pseudomonadota (n=197), Actinomycetota (n=88) and Acidobacteriota (n=50) and included two archaeal MAGs in the phylum Thermoproteota. These genomes can help to improve reference database entries of phyllosphere-affiliated microbes, increasing our understanding of phyllosphere microbial phylogenomic and community dynamics and the ecological roles of phyllosphere microbiomes.
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