Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00888-x, published online 26 April 2021.

In the version of this Perspective originally published, the author Vincent Robert’s affiliation with the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute was mistakenly omitted. In addition, the author Marco Thines’s affiliation with the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre was mistakenly omitted.

Vincent Robert’s affiliation has now been corrected to: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; and Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Marco Thines’s affiliation has now been corrected to: International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF), https://www.fungaltaxonomy.org/; Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany; and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.