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Methane emissions are mitigated by anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea, including Methanoperedens. Some Methanoperedens host huge extrachromosomal genetic elements (ECEs) called Borgs that may modulate their activity, yet the broader diversity of Methanoperedens ECEs is understudied. Here we report small enigmatic linear ECEs, circular viruses and unclassified ECEs that are predicted to replicate within Methanoperedens. Linear ECEs have inverted terminal repeats, tandem repeats and coding patterns that are strongly reminiscent of Borgs, but they are only 52-145 kb in length. As they share proteins with Borgs and Methanoperedens, we refer to them as mini-Borgs. Mini-Borgs are genetically diverse and can be assigned to at least five family-level groups. We identify eight families of Methanoperedens viruses, some of which encode multi-haem cytochromes, and circular ECEs encoding transposon-associated TnpB genes with proximal population-heterogeneous CRISPR arrays. These ECEs exchange genetic information with each other and with Methanoperedens, probably impacting their archaeal host activity and evolution.
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