Putting microorganisms on the map: a continental scale context for microbial genomes sampled from North American watersheds

Mikayla Borton1, Kathryn Willi2, Angela Oliverio3, Rebecca Daly3, Theodore Bambakidis4, Michael Shaffer3, Josue Rodriguez-Ramos3, LeAundra Schöpflin1,5, Robert Edward Danczak6,7, Amy E Goldman8, Elisha M Wood-Charlson9, Michael J Wilkins10, Simon Roux11, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh12, Byron C Crump13, Christopher Henry14, Matthew Ross15, James Stegen6 and Kelly Wrighton3, (1)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University and National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Oregon Stae University, Corvallis, United States, (5)University of Delaware, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (7)Hiram College, Department of Biology, Hiram, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (11)Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (12)Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (13)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, (14)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (15)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States