Correction to: The ISME Journal advance online publication, 9 January 2015; doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.250

After the publication of this paper, it was noticed that the names were not spelled out in full as per the ISME Journal’s style. The following is how the names should appear:

‘Jennifer C Stearns, Carla J Davidson, Suzanne McKeon, Fiona J Whelan, Michelle E Fontes, Anthony B Schryvers, Dawn ME Bowdish, James D Kellner and Michael G Surette.’

The publishers would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. This change has now been implemented.