Recovery of 26 metagenome-assembled genomes from the phycosphere of the marine diatom Skeletonema tropicum

Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered from the phycosphere of marine diatom Skeletonema tropicum, which has been long-term maintained in artificial seawater. Most MAGs were found to be highly complete (>90%) with minimum contaminations (<5%), which could serve as reference genomes to investigate the interactions between Skeletonema and their phycosphere microbiota.