Erratum to: Extremophiles DOI 10.1007/s00792-006-0002-9

In Table 1, the letters in the columns headed I–XI were not properly aligned. The corrected table is given here.

Table 1 Comparison of sequences of putative archaeal kinases with the consensus sequence of highly conserved subdomains of eukaryotic protein kinases as described in Hanks and Hunter (1995)