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Aeromonas sobria  is a mesophilic motile aeromonad currently depicted as an opportunistic pathogen, despite increasing evidence of mutualistic interactions in salmonid fish. However, the determinants of its host-microbe associations, either mutualistic or pathogenic, remain less understood than for other aeromonad species. On one side, there is an over-representation of pathogenic interactions in the  A. sobria  literature, of which only three articles to date report mutualistic interactions; on the other side, genomic characterization of this species is still fairly incomplete as only two draft genomes were published prior to the present work. Consequently, no study specifically investigated the biodiversity of  A. sobria . In fact, the investigation of  A. sobria  as a species complex may have been clouded by: (i) confusion with  A. veronii  biovar  sobria  because of their similar biochemical profiles, and (ii) the intrinsic low resolution of previous studies based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and multilocus sequence typing. So far, the only high-resolution, phylogenomic studies of the genus  Aeromonas  included one  A. sobria  strain (CECT 4245 / Popoff 208), making it impossible to robustly conclude on the phylogenetic intra-species diversity and the positioning among other  Aeromonas  species. To further understand the biodiversity and the spectrum of host-microbe interactions in  A. sobria  as well as its potential genomic diversity, we assessed the genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity among five  A. sobria  strains: two clinical isolates recovered from infected fish (JF2635 and CECT 4245), one from an infected amphibian (08005) and two recently isolated brook charr probionts (TM12 and TM18) which inhibit  in vitro  growth of  A. salmonicida  subsp.  salmonicida  (a salmonid fish pathogen). A phylogenomic assessment including 2,154 softcore genes corresponding to 946,687 variable sites from 33  Aeromonas  genomes confirms the status of  A. sobria  as a distinct species divided in two subclades, with 100% bootstrap support. The phylogenomic split of  A. sobria  in two subclades is corroborated by a deep dichotomy between all five  A. sobria  strains in terms of inhibitory effect against  A. salmonicida  subsp.  salmonicida , gene contents and codon usage. Finally, the antagonistic effect of  A. sobria  strains TM12 and TM18 suggests novel control methods against  A. salmonicida  subsp.  salmonicida .

Strong Genomic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity in the Aeromonas sobria Species Complex