Correction

After publication of the original article [1] it was identified that an incorrect version of the manuscript has been published. This was caused by a technical error which led to a discrepancy between the editorially-accepted version of the manuscript, and the published version.

A list of Corrections is included below:

  1. 1)

    The following abbreviations have been corrected throughout the article:

    Nla changed to N. lactamica

    Nme changed to N. meningitides

    N.go changed to N. gonorrhoeae

    Nci changed to N. cinerea

  2. 2)

    Table 1: ‘Term’ and ‘Evidence code’ columns of the first 7 rows have been updated to the following:

Domain Bacteria

TAS [37]

Phylum Proteobacteria

TAS [38]

Class Betaproteobacteria

TAS [39, 40]

Order Neisseriales

TAS [39, 41]

Family - Neisseriaceae

TAS [42]

Genus Neisseria

TAS [42]

Species Neisseria lactamica

TAS [42, 43]

  1. 3)

    Table 2: Missing/blank term for MIGS 13 has been changed to read “Strain is not publicly available”.

  2. 4)

    2nd paragraph under heading “Insights from the genome sequence”: Sentence containing “…approximately a third (33.5%) of all open reading frames (ORFs) in this genome…” has been shortened to “approximately a third (33.5%) of all ORFs in this genome…”

  3. 5)

    3rd paragraph under heading “Insights from the genome sequence”: Bracketed abbreviation ‘(DUS)’ has been removed.

  4. 6)

    3rd paragraph under heading “Insights from the genome sequence”: Bracketed abbreviation ‘(CREEs)’ has been removed

  5. 7)

    Bracketed link for PHAST ‘(http://phast.wishartlad.com/index.html)’ changed to reference 35.

  6. 8)

    Reference 14 initially missing from article, has now been added and correctly referenced

  7. 9)

    Reference 33 was removed, as it was a duplicate of reference 30.

  8. 10)

    References 36–40 removed, and replaced with updated reference list (36–46):

36. Field D, Garrity G, Gray T, Morrison N, Selengut J, Sterk P, et al. The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification. Nat Biotechnol. 2008;26:541–7.

37. Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1990;87:4576–9. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576.

38. Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. 2001. p. 119–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6_15.

39. Euzeby. J. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2006;56:1–6.

40. Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class II. Betaproteobacteria class. Nov. In: Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. 2005. p. 575–922. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29298-5_2.

41. Tønjum T. Neisseriales ord. Nov. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.obm00079.

42. SKERMAN VBD, McGOWAN V, SNEATH PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 1980;30:225–420.

43. Hollis DG, Wiggins GL, Weaver RE. Neisseria lactamicus sp. n., a lactose-fermenting species resembling Neisseria meningitidis. Appl Microbiol. 1969;17:71–7.

44. Aho EL, Keating a M, McGillivray SM. A comparative analysis of pilin genes from pathogenic and nonpathogenic Neisseria species. Microb Pathog. 2000;28:81–8.

45. Lennette, Edwin H. Manual of Clinical Microbiology. 4th edition. Washington DC: American Society for Microbiology; 1985.

46. Neisseria MLST website. https://pubmlst.org/neisseria/. Accessed 2 Feb 2017.

The Publisher apologises for this error.