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 ## To cite this work or code
 
-- **Publication:** Stadler M, del Giorgio PA. Terrestrial connectivity , upstream aquatic history and seasonality shape bacterial community assembly within a large boreal aquatic network. ISME J 2022; 16: 937–947. 
+- **Publication:** Stadler M, del Giorgio PA. Terrestrial connectivity, upstream aquatic history and seasonality shape bacterial community assembly within a large boreal aquatic network. ISME J 2022; 16: 937–947. 
 - **Code:** Masumi Stadler. (2021). CarBBAS/Paper_Stadler-delGiorgio_ISMEJ_2021: v1.0-beta. In The ISME Journal (beta). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5567270
 - **Processed microbial data:** Stadler, Masumi, Ruiz-González, Clara, Vick-Majors, Trista J, & del Giorgio, Paul A. (2021). Microbial 16S rRNA gene (DNA) and transcripts (cDNA) along a boreal soil-freshwater-estuary continuum (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4611420