10.57973/seqcode.r:xwx6hrsf Jimenez, Diego Diego Jimenez https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9339-6520 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology SeqCode Registry 2022 NotificationList Rodriguez-R, Luis M Luis M Rodriguez-R https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-3093 Aalborg University Chuvochina, Maria Maria Chuvochina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3977-6012 The University of Queensland Palmer, Marike Marike Palmer https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8395-8465 University of Manitoba The SeqCode Initiative 2022-05-2321:17:06UTC 2022-10-0513:13:32UTC 2022-09-2907:00:00UTC 10.1038/s43705-022-00176-7 en seqco.de/r:xwx6hrsf 1.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International In this study, the polymer-degrading capability of a minimal lignocellulolytic microbial consortium (MELMC) was explored by genome-resolved metagenomics. The MELMC was mostly composed (>90%) of three bacterial members (Pseudomonas protegens; Pristimantibacillus lignocellulolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov; and Ochrobactrum gambitense sp. nov) recognized by their high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Here, the PacBio-HiFI metagenome sequencing was useful to reconstruct the genomes of the three most abundant MELMC species, unveiling two novel bacterial taxa involved in lignocellulose and plastics transformation.