title: Erratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity.
abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0081-x.].
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640 USA ; Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
authors.forename: J Gregory
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Caporaso
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Tao
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
authors.forename: Hua-Fang
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 70 Ship Street, Providence, RI 02912 USA.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Huse
authors.affiliation: Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 4073, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4073 USA.
authors.forename: Jai Ram
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rideout
authors.affiliation: Tiburon, CA 94920 USA.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Edgar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.
authors.forename: Evguenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kopylova
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Walters
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA ; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC0763, La Jolla, CA 92093-0763 USA.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Environmental Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515 China.
authors.forename: Hong-Wei
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Zhou