Erratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640 USA ; Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 70 Ship Street, Providence, RI 02912 USA.
⁴ Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
⁵ Tiburon, CA 94920 USA.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.
⁷ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA ; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.

Published Erratum

Yan He et al. Microbiome. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 31:3:34.

doi: 10.1186/s40168-015-0098-1. eCollection 2015.

¹ State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640 USA ; Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 70 Ship Street, Providence, RI 02912 USA.
⁴ Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
⁵ Tiburon, CA 94920 USA.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.
⁷ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA ; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x.].

Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity.
He Y, Caporaso JG, Jiang XT, Sheng HF, Huse SM, Rideout JR, Edgar RC, Kopylova E, Walters WA, Knight R, Zhou HW. He Y, et al. Microbiome. 2015 May 20;3:20. doi: 10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x. eCollection 2015. Microbiome. 2015. PMID: 25995836 Free PMC article.

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