Strategies to improve reference databases for soil microbiomes

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
• ² Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
• ³ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁴ Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
• ⁵ Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.