Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 15591; published online: 22 October 2015; updated: 07 January 2016.

In this Article, Mark Arick II and B. Lynn Escalon are incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, USA’ and ‘EPOC, UMR CNRS 5805, Université de Bordeaux, 33405 Talence, France’ respectively. The correct affiliations are listed below:

Mark Arick II

Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing & Biotechnology (IGBB), Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA

B. Lynn Escalon

Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, USA