Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59513-6, published online 02 May 2024

The PDF version of this Article contained errors in Equations 1 and 2, where the equations were incompletely displayed. The correct equations are displayed below:

$$\text{No}.\text{ colonies alive }= a+b-c$$
(1)
$$\text{No}.\text{colonies lost }= a+b-c-d$$
(2)

The original Article has been corrected.