Correction to: The ISME Journal (2013) 7, 465–467; doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.131

Since the publication of this article, the author has identified an error contained within the following sentence (located on page 1):

However, there is a third possibility that transcends the traditional concept of nature and nurture as determinants of the phenotype: that phenotypic diversity is produced independently of genetic for example, see environmental variation.

The correct sentence should read:

However, there is a third possibility that transcends the traditional concept of nature and nurture as determinants of the phenotype: that phenotypic diversity is produced independently of genetic and environmental variation.

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