QUANTITATIVELY PARTITIONING MICROBIAL GENOMIC TRAITS AMONG TAXONOMIC RANKS ACROSS THE MICROBIAL TREE OF LIFE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TOWARDS SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES

Taylor Michael Royalty, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States and Andrew D Steen, University of Tennessee, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States