Spores and soil from six sides: interdisciplinarity and the environmental biology of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) Authors: Colin J. Carlson 1,2 , Wayne M. Getz 3,4 , Kyrre L. Kausrud 5 , Carrie A. Cizauskas 3 , Jason K. Blackburn 6,7 , Fausto A. Bustos Carrillo 8 , Rita Colwell 9,10,11 , W. Ryan Easterday 5 , Holly H. Ganz 12 , Pauline L. Kamath 13 , Ole Andreas Økstad 14 , Wendy C. Turner 15 , Anne-Brit Kolstø 14 , Nils C. Stenseth 5 * Affiliations: 1 National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, USA 2 Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, USA 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 5 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway 6 Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 7 Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 8 Department of Epidemiology & Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 50 University Hall #7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA 9 CosmosID Inc., Rockville, MD 20850, USA . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license under a not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available The copyright holder for this preprint (which was this version posted February 25, 2018. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/165548 doi: bioRxiv preprint