Correction to: The ISME Journal advance online publication, 24 June 2010; doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.80

The authors of the above article have noticed a misprint in the publication of their paper. This occurs in the second sentence of the introduction. The sentence should read: ‘On the basis of genomic information, the species has been divided into five (four major) different phylogenetic groups, denoted as A, B1, B2, D and E (Touchon et al., 2009).’

The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.