Global Diversity and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities in Wastewater Treatment 1 Plants 2 3

Global Diversity and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities in Wastewater Treatment 1 Plants 2 3 Linwei Wu†, Daliang Ning†, Bing Zhang†, Yong Li, Ping Zhang, Xiaoyu Shan, 4 Qiuting Zhang, Mathew Brown, Zhenxin Li, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Fangqiong Ling, Naijia 5 Xiao, Ya Zhang, Julia Vierheilig, George F. Wells, Yunfeng Yang, Ye Deng, Qichao 6 Tu, Aijie Wang, Global Water Microbiome Consortium‡, Tong Zhang, Zhili He, Jurg 7 Keller, Per H. Nielsen, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Craig S. Criddle, Michael Wagner, James M. 8 Tiedje, Qiang He*, Thomas P. Curtis*, David A. Stahl, Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Bruce E. 9 Rittmann, Xianghua Wen*, and Jizhong Zhou* 10 11 12 State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of 13 Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Institute for Environmental Genomics, 14 Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and School of Civil Engineering and 15 Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; Consolidated Core 16 Laboratory, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA; College of Resource & 17 Environment Southwest University, Chongqing, China; Alkek Center for Metagenomics and 18 Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of 19 Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon 20 Tyne, UK; School of Environment, Northeastern Normal University, Changchun, China; 21 Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. 22 Louis, MO, USA; Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Microbial 23 Ecology, Research Network 'Chemistry meets Microbiology', University of Vienna, Vienna, 24 Austria; Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Division of Water Quality and Health, 25 Krems, Austria & Interuniversity Cooperation Centre for Water and Health; Department of 26 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Institute 27 for Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China; Research Center 28 for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 29 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 30 Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and 31 Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Provincial Key 32 Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Guangzhou, 33 China; Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 34 Australia; Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Center for Microbial Communities, 35 Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 36 Rice University, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 37 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State 38 University, East Lansing, MI, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The 39 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Institute for a Secure and Sustainable 40 Environment, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Department of Civil and 41 Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of 42 Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of California, 43 Berkeley, CA, USA; Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National 44 Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA; Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, 45 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. 46 This document is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: