Feifei Xu1, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist1,2, Martin Kolisko3,4,5, Alastair G B Simpson3,6, Andrew J Roger4,6, Staffan G Svärd1, Jan O Andersson7. 1. Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 2. Present address: Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 3. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. 4. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. 5. Present address: Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 6. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Toronto, ON, Canada. 7. Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. jan.andersson@icm.uu.se.
Unfortunately, the original version of this article [1] contained an error. In the Discussion section, the species name E. terrapinae should be E. moshkovskii in two occasions. The corrected paragraph of the Discussion section can be found below;“Interestingly, RNR, an essential enzyme for life independent of a host, has been lost in the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica [21], whereas we identified homologs of RNR of bacterial origins in three divergent Entamoeba species (Fig. 4b), including E. moshkovskii, which is considered to be free-living [71]. This lineage might have adapted to a free-living lifestyle secondarily, similar to Trepomonas. If so, E. moshkovskii is expected to harbour more recently acquired genes associated with a free- living lifestyle. This prediction could be tested by comparative studies of Entamoeba genomes.”
Authors: Feifei Xu; Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist; Martin Kolisko; Alastair G B Simpson; Andrew J Roger; Staffan G Svärd; Jan O Andersson Journal: BMC Biol Date: 2016-08-01 Impact factor: 7.431