Correction to: The ISME Journal (2014) 8, 1932–1944; doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.42; published online 27 March 2014

Since the publication of this article, the authors have identified an error in the Acknowledgements section. The correct acknowledgements are as follows:

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Daiyong Deng for field work and Dr James W Voordeckers for improving the English language. This research was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2012CB22307), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170470), Guangdong Province—Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Cooperative Project (2012B091100257), the International Cooperation Projects of Guangdong Province (2011B050400005), Guangdong Provincial Programs for Science and Technology Development (2012A061100009) and Guangdong Provincial Innovative Development of Marine Economy Regional Demonstration Projects (GD2012-D01-002).

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