Fig. 2

Overview of the recruitment (RPKG) distribution of all genomes in SAR202 cluster together with deep specific single cell amplified genomes of the SAR11 clade. a Recruitment RPKG distribution in marine mesopelagic datasets together with the deep Caspian dataset from 150 m depth. Datasets cover the depths from 150 m to 1000 m (n = 19) in the mesopelagic layer and they include Caspian Sea (150 m), TARA mesopelagic (550–1000 m), Aegean Sea (600 m) and Marmara Sea (1000 m). b Recruitment (RPKG) distribution in marine deep datasets in the range of 1500–6000 m (n = 31) including deep MALASPINA datasets together with the deep sea datasets of the Ionian Sea (3500 m) and Puerto Rico deep trench (6000 m). The black dots in the box plots are outlier values and the line inside the boxes indicates the median value