Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0582-7, published online 9 July 2018.

In the version of this Article originally published, the following sentence was missing from the Acknowledgements: “R.E.B. is an EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Impact Fellow EP/N033671/1; I.G. is funded by ERC Consolidator grant 647292 MathModExp; A.J.P.B., N.A.R.G. and A.T. were funded by BBSRC grant BB/F00513X/1; K.H., I.G., S.N. and E.C. were funded by BBSRC grant BB/F005210/2.” This text has now been added.