Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 11571; published online: 25 June 2015; updated: 30 July 2015

In this Article, an additional affiliation for Toni Gabaldón was omitted. The correct affiliation is listed below:

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.

In addition, there is a typographical error in the accession number for the Geotrichum candidum genome sequence data “PRJEB5752”, which was incorrectly given as “PRJEB4557”.