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# Bacterial functional group assignments

# Scripts and reference files for assigning functions to bacteria classified to various taxonomic levels

# NOTE: Some of the reference DOIs have been "corrected" by an Excel glitch, and no longer point to the correct reference publications :(

Please cite Averill et al 2021 or Werbin et al. 2023:
Averill, Colin, Zoey R Werbin, Kathryn F Atherton, Jennifer M Bhatnagar, and Michael C Dietze. 2021. “Soil Microbiome Predictability Increases with Spatial and Taxonomic Scale.” Nature Ecology and Evolution 5 (6): 747–56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01445-9.

Major references for these functional groups:
Ho et al. 2018: Oligotrophs and copiotrophs (literature review)
Albright et al. 2018: Nitrogen cyclers (genomic pathways)
Berlemont & Martiny 2013: Cellulolytic bacteria (genomic pathways)
Naylor et al. 2020: Stress-tolerance and substrate preference (enrichment experiments)