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Correction

Correction: Zablocki, O.; et al. Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses 2017, 9, 348

Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, 7535 Bellville, South Africa
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Viruses 2018, 10(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/v10010017
Submission received: 19 December 2017 / Revised: 27 December 2017 / Accepted: 27 December 2017 / Published: 2 January 2018
(This article belongs to the Section Bacterial Viruses)
The authors wish to make the following changes to their paper [1]. In Section 3.5.1. (Identification Using the polB2 Gene), we erroneously grouped His1 and His2 viruses in the same genus, Salterprovirus, and had concluded that our metagenomic sequences which had grouped with His1 and His2 viruses had expanded the Salterprovirus clade (Figure 2, [1]). His1 virus is the sole current representative of the genus Salterprovirus [2]. However, His2 virus is classified as belonging to the genus Gammapleolipovirus [3]. Thus, metagenomic sequences related to both His1 and His2 viruses may be expanding either genera or both, and not only the genus Salterprovirus, as initially stated in the submitted paper.
The authors apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The changes do not significantly affect the scientific results however rectify the taxonomic inaccuracies.

References

  1. Zablocki, O.; van Zyl, L.J.; Kirby, B.; Trindade, M. Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses 2017, 9, 348. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Zablocki O, Van Zyl LJ, Kirby B, Trindade M. Correction: Zablocki, O.; et al. Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses 2017, 9, 348. Viruses. 2018; 10(1):17. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10010017

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Zablocki, Olivier, Leonardo Joaquim Van Zyl, Bronwyn Kirby, and Marla Trindade. 2018. "Correction: Zablocki, O.; et al. Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses 2017, 9, 348" Viruses 10, no. 1: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10010017

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