In this study, we found a clear trend between niche similarity and nucleotide divergence for Pelagibacter , Pelagibacter_A (i.e., SAR11 clade I and II), and less clearly for SAR86A.
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The Synechococcus genus (9 ASVs) displayed similarly high proportionality values at low and high nucleotide distances, not showing a decreasing trend.