Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65102-6, published online 18 November 2025

In the version of this article initially published, there was a typographical error in the Methods “Plasmid dataset” section, where in the following text, the word “no” was missing: “Second, only sequences with no more than one Universal Single-Copy Marker Gene….” The text has been updated in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.