Correction to: The ISME Journal (2008) 2, 656–662; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.27

Since the publication of this paper, the authors have noticed an error in Table 2. The correct table is shown below.

Table 2 The proteorhodopsin forward and reverse primers used in this study, designed based on known PR sequences found in the NCBI and Global Ocean Sampling datasets
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The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.