Erratum: Temporal transcriptional patterns of cyanophage genes suggest synchronized infection of cyanobacteria in the oceans (Microbiome (2020) 8 (68) DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00842-9)

The below statement in the Background of the original article [1] was incorrect. Individual viral genes with diel transcriptional rhythms were in fact listed in the supplementary dataset S05 (Sheet 2) of Aylward et al. 2017 [2]. This statement therefore needs to be corrected as outlined below. This correction does not affect the results and onclusions. The original text: “However, it was not shown in this study whether individual viral genes in a scaffold show diurnal transcriptional rhythms, as the combined transcripts mapped to all the genes in a scaffold were used for diel periodicity analyses ([1] reference [2] in this correction).” Corrected text: Several viral genes in the scaffolds also howed iurnal transcriptional rhythms [2], but it remains to be determined whether the peak expression times of early, middle, and late cyanophage genes are different.