Nature Reviews Microbiology (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0005-4 Published online 6 April 2018

In the version of this Review originally published, co-author Hendrik Jan Thibaut’s name was incorrectly indexed as “Jan Thibaut, H”. It should have appeared as “Thibaut, HJ”. This has now been corrected in all versions of the Review. The publisher apologizes to the authors and to readers for this error.