Eme, Laura
Spang, Anja
Lombard, Jonathan
Stairs, Courtney W.
Ettema, Thijs J. G.
Article History
First Online: 10 November 2017
Change Date: 27 November 2017
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: On pages 714–715 of this article, in the first paragraph of the section What do we currently know about LECA?, the sentence “Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses have led to the hypothesis that LECA, estimated to have lived ∼1–1.9 million years ago54, already was a fully fledged eukaryote and possessed a large number of features that are uniquely found in modern eukaryotes55,56.” should have read “Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses have led to the hypothesis that LECA, estimated to have lived ∼1–1.9 billion years ago54, already was a fully fledged eukaryote and possessed a large number of features that are uniquely found in modern eukaryotes55,56.” This has been corrected in the online version of the article. The authors apologize to the readers for any misunderstanding caused.
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing financial interests.