Updates are available Erratum dated 2018-07-06

Article History

Received: 13 July 2017

Accepted: 11 January 2018

First Online: 19 February 2018

Change Date: 6 March 2018

Change Type: Erratum

Change Details: In the version of this article initially published, the references in the reference list were in the wrong order; the references have been renumbered as follows: 3 as 2; 5 as 3; 6 as 8; 7 as 9; 8 as 11; 9 as 6; 10 as 12; 11 as 5; 12 as 13; 13 as 7; 16 as 10; and no. 2, “Hoch, J.A. & Losick, R. Panspermia, spores and the Bacillus subtilis genome. Nature 390, 237–238 (1997),” has been deleted. In addition, on p.242, end of paragraph 2, the citation in “experiments7” has been deleted. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Competing interests

: S.D.A., Y.-J.C., S.Y., K.M., M.Z.R., G.K., P.G., B.N., H.-Y.P., C.R., G.G., R.C., J.M., D.C., and K.S. are or were employees at Microsoft Research.