These datasets are count tables of annotated transcript abundances for planktonic microbial populations, that were sampled every 4 hours at different depths in the North Pacific Subtroptical Gyre. The
1SXTwt is strain RF146. 2Loss was calculated as indicated in materials and methods. 3Exconjugant formation was calculated as the number of exconjugant cfu/number of donor cfu. The data is from a repre