Seasonal and evolutionary patterns of planktonic Hikarchaeia reveal ecological niches of marine rare biosphere constituents
ABSTRACT Members of Marine Group IV, now termed Hikarchaeia, hold an important transitional evolutionary position among Archaea but remain uncultivated, and their ecology remains uncharacterized. Over a 5-year period, we performed monthly profile sampling in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre and sequenced V4 16S rRNA...