The authors wish to make the following changes to their paper []. 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, []). His1 virus is the sole current representative of the genus Salterprovirus []. However, His2 virus is classified as belonging to the genus Gammapleolipovirus []. 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.
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