Verrucomicrobia are prevalent in north-temperate freshwater lakes and display class-level preferences between lake habitats

• Edna Chiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Marian L. Schmidt,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Michelle A. Berry,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Bopaiah A. Biddanda,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University, Muskegon, MI, United States of America

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• Ashley Burtner,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Thomas H. Johengen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Danna Palladino,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Vincent J. Denef

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vdenef@umich.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7830-8572

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