Correction to: The ISME Journal (2009) 7, 860–869; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.23

Since the publication of this paper, the authors have noticed an error in Table 1. The correct table is shown here.

Table 1 Physico-chemical characteristics, water mass of origin and diversity estimates (calculated at the 3% difference level between 16S rRNA gene fragments) for eight archaeal assemblages from the Arctic Ocean

The authors apologize for this error.