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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Michael W Hall conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Robin R Rohwer analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Jonathan Perrie conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Katherine D McMahon analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Robert G Beiko conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

1) figshare

2) 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3707938

3) https://figshare.com/collections/Ananke_Data_Sets/3707938

Funding

MWH acknowledges the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). RGB acknowledges the support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the NSERC Discovery Grants program. KDM acknowledges funding from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Microbial Observatories program (MCB-0702395), the Long Term Ecological Research program (NTL-LTER DEB-1440297), an INSPIRE award (DEB-1344254), and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Hatch Project 1002996). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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