Phylogenetic novelty observed in the Alert, NU, Illumina library (42) showing (a) the recovery of unique lineages (UL) observed in a manual survey for phylogenetic novelty in the same library (4), including (b) a novel clade corresponding to a group of recovered UL examples, and (c) an abundant putatively novel clade not previously observed. Phylogenetic novelty observed in the Alert, NU, Illumina library (42) showing (a) the recovery of unique lineages (UL) observed in a manual survey for phylogenetic novelty in the same library (4), including (b) a novel clade corresponding to a group of recovered UL examples, and (c) an abundant putatively novel clade not previously observed. Michael D. J. Lynch, and Josh D. Neufeld mSystems 2016; doi:10.1128/mSystems.00133-16