There are quite a few examples of scenic oligotrophic lakes, such as New York’s Lake George, the deepest lake of the Adirondacks, or Ontario’s Lake Joseph, the largest of Muskoka's lakes.

These genomes displayed a high prevalence of pathways involved in lipid chemistry, and a low prevalence of nutrient uptake pathways, which might represent adaptations to the specific, cold (∼ 3.5°C) ...