A Communal Catalogue Reveals Earth's Multiscale Microbial Diversity

Luke R. Thompson, Jon G. Sanders, Daniel McDonald, Amnon Amir, Joshua Ladau, Kenneth J. Locey, Robert J. Prill, Anupriya Tripathi, Sean M. Gibbons, Gail Ackermann, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Stefan Janssen, Evguenia Kopylova, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Antonio González, James T. Morton, Siavash Mirarab, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Lingjing Jiang, Mohamed F. Haroon, Jad Kanbar, Qiyun Zhu, Se Jin Song, Tomasz Kosciolek, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Joshua Lefler, Colin J. Brislawn, Gregory Humphrey, Sarah M. Owens, Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Donna Berg-Lyons, Valerie McKenzie, Noah Fierer, Jed A. Fuhrman, Aaron Clauset, Rick L. Stevens, Ashley Shade, Katherine S. Pollard, Kelly D. Goodwin, Janet K. Jansson, Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight, The Earth Microbiome Project Consortium, Jose L. Agosto Rivera, Lisa Al-Moosawi, John Alverdy, Katherine R. Amato, Jason Andras, Largus T. Angenent, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos, Amy Apprill, David Armitage, Kate Ballantine, Jirˇí Bárta, Julia K. Baum, Allison Berry, Ashish Bhatnagar, Monica Bhatnagar, Jennifer F. Biddle, Lucie Bittner, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Eric Bottos, Donal M. Boyer, Josephine Braun, William Brazelton, Francis Q. Brearley, Alexandra H. Campbell, J. Gregory Caporaso, Cesar Cardona, JoLynn Carroll, S. Craig Cary, Brenda B. Casper, Trevor C. Charles, Haiyan Chu, Danielle C. Claar, Robert G. Clark, Jonathan B. Clayton, Jose C. Clemente, Alyssa Cochran, Maureen L. Coleman, Gavin Collins, Rita R. Colwell, Mónica Contreras, Benjamin B. Crary, Simon Creer, Daniel A. Cristol, Byron C. Crump, Duoying Cui, Sarah E. Daly, Liliana Davalos, Russell D. Dawson, Jennifer Defazio, Frédéric Delsuc, Hebe M. Dionisi, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Robin Dowell, Eric A. Dubinsky, Peter O. Dunn, Danilo Ercolini, Robert E. Espinoza, Vanessa Ezenwa, Nathalie Fenner, Helen S. Findlay, Irma D. Fleming, Vincenzo Fogliano, Anna Forsman, Chris Freeman, Elliot S. Friedman, Giancarlo Galindo, Liza Garcia, Maria Alexandra Garcia-Amado, David Garshelis, Robin B. Gasser, Gunnar Gerdts, Molly K. Gibson, Isaac Gifford, Ryan T. Gill, Tugrul Giray, Antje Gittel, Peter Golyshin, Donglai Gong, Hans-Peter Grossart, Kristina Guyton, Sarah-Jane Haig, Vanessa Hale, Ross Stephen Hall, Steven J. Hallam, Kim M. Handley, Nur A. Hasan, Shane R. Haydon, Jonathan E. Hickman, Glida Hidalgo, Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Jeff Hooker, Stefan Hulth, Jenni Hultman, Embriette Hyde, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Julie D. Jastrow, Aaron R. Jex, L. Scott Johnson, Eric R. Johnston, Stephen Joseph, Stephanie D. Jurburg, Diogo Jurelevicius, Anders Karlsson, Roger Karlsson, Seth Kauppinen, Colleen T. E. Kellogg, Suzanne J. Kennedy, Lee J. Kerkhof, Gary M. King, George W. Kling, Anson V. Koehler, Monika Krezalek, Jordan Kueneman, Regina Lamendella, Emily M. Landon, Kelly Lane-deGraaf, Julie LaRoche, Peter Larsen, Bonnie Laverock, Simon Lax, Miguel Lentino, Iris I. Levin, Pierre Liancourt, Wenju Liang, Alexandra M. Linz, David A. Lipson, Yongqin Liu, Manuel E. Lladser, Mariana Lozada, Catherine M. Spirito, Walter P. MacCormack, Aurora MacRae-Crerar, Magda Magris, Antonio M. Mart\ń-Platero, Manuel Mart\‘-́Vivaldi, L. Margarita Mart\‘iź, Manuel Mart\‘in-́Bueno, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Olivia U. Mason, Gregory D. Mayer, Jamie M. McDevitt-Irwin, James E. McDonald, Krista L. McGuire, Katherine D. McMahon, Ryan McMinds, Mónica Medina, Joseph R. Mendelson, Jessica L. Metcalf, Folker Meyer, Fabian Michelangeli, Kim Miller, David A. Mills, Jeremiah Minich, Stefano Mocali, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Anni Moore, Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Paul Munroe, David Myrold, Josh D. Neufeld, Yingying Ni, Graeme W. Nicol, Shaun Nielsen, Jozef I. Nissimov, Kefeng Niu, Matthew J. Nolan, Karen Noyce, Sarah L. O’Brien, Noriko Okamoto, Ludovic Orlando, Yadira Ortiz Castellano, Olayinka Osuolale, Wyatt Oswald, Jacob Parnell, Juan M. Peralta-Sánchez, Peter Petraitis, Catherine Pfister, Elizabeth Pilon-Smits, Paola Piombino, Stephen B. Pointing, F. Joseph Pollock, Caitlin Potter, Bharath Prithiviraj, Christopher Quince, Asha Rani, Ravi Ranjan, Subramanya Rao, Andrew P. Rees, Miles Richardson, Ulf Riebesell, Carol Robinson, Karl J. Rockne, Selena Marie Rodriguezl, Forest Rohwer, Wayne Roundstone, Rebecca J. Safran, Naseer Sangwan, Virginia Sanz, Matthew Schrenk, Mark D. Schrenzel, Nicole M. Scott, Rita L. Seger, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Lucy Seldin, Lauren M. Seyler, Baddr Shakhsheer, Gabriela M. Sheets, Congcong Shen, Yu Shi, Hakdong Shin, Benjamin D. Shogan, Dave Shutler, Jeffrey Siegel, Steve Simmons, Sara Sjöling, Daniel P. Smith, Juan J. Soler, Martin Sperling, Peter D. Steinberg, Brent Stephens, Melita A. Stevens, Safiyh Taghavi, Vera Tai, Karen Tait, Chia L. Tan, ̧ Neslihan Tas, D. Lee Taylor, Torsten Thomas, Ina Timling, Benjamin L. Turner, Tim Urich, Luke K. Ursell, Daniel van der Lelie, William Van Treuren, Lukas van Zwieten, Daniela Vargas-Robles, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Paola Vitaglione, Donald A. Walker, William A. Walters, Shi Wang, Tao Wang, Tom Weaver, Nicole S. Webster, Beck Wehrle, Pamela Weisenhorn, Sophie Weiss, Jeffrey J. Werner, Kristin West, Andrew Whitehead, Susan R. Whitehead, Linda A. Whittingham, Eske Willerslev, Allison E. Williams, Stephen A. Wood, Douglas C. Woodhams, Yeqin Yang, Jesse Zaneveld, Iratxe Zarraonaindia, Qikun Zhang, Hongxia Zhao