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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Microbiol.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Microbiology</journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1664-302X</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fmicb.2018.02330</article-id>
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<subject>Microbiology</subject>
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<subject>Correction</subject>
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<article-title>Corrigendum: Variability of Bacterial Essential Genes Among Closely Related Bacteria: The Case of <italic>Escherichia coli</italic></article-title>
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<name><surname>Mart&#x000ED;nez-Carranza</surname> <given-names>Enrique</given-names></name>
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<name><surname>Barajas</surname> <given-names>Hugo</given-names></name>
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<name><surname>Alcaraz</surname> <given-names>Luis-David</given-names></name>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref>
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<name><surname>Serv&#x000ED;n-Gonz&#x000E1;lez</surname> <given-names>Luis</given-names></name>
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<name><surname>Ponce-Soto</surname> <given-names>Gabriel-Yaxal</given-names></name>
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<name><surname>Sober&#x000F3;n-Ch&#x000E1;vez</surname> <given-names>Gloria</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c001"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref>
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<aff id="aff1"><sup>1</sup><institution>Departamento de Biolog&#x000ED;a Molecular y Biotecnolog&#x000ED;a, Instituto de Investigaciones Biom&#x000E9;dicas, Universidad Nacional Aut&#x000F3;noma de M&#x000E9;xico</institution>, <addr-line>Mexico City</addr-line>, <country>Mexico</country></aff>
<aff id="aff2"><sup>2</sup><institution>Departamento de Biolog&#x000ED;a Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Aut&#x000F3;noma de M&#x000E9;xico</institution>, <addr-line>Mexico City</addr-line>, <country>Mexico</country></aff>
<aff id="aff3"><sup>3</sup><institution>Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecolog&#x000ED;a, Universidad Nacional Aut&#x000F3;noma de M&#x000E9;xico</institution>, <addr-line>Mexico City</addr-line>, <country>Mexico</country></aff>
<aff id="aff4"><sup>4</sup><institution>Departamento de Ecolog&#x000ED;a Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecolog&#x000ED;a, Universidad Nacional Aut&#x000F3;noma de M&#x000E9;xico</institution>, <addr-line>Mexico City</addr-line>, <country>Mexico</country></aff>
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<corresp id="c001">&#x0002A;Correspondence: Gloria Sober&#x000F3;n-Ch&#x000E1;vez  <email>gloria&#x00040;biomedicas.unam.mx</email></corresp>
<fn fn-type="edited-by"><p>Approved by: Frontiers in Microbiology Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland</p></fn>
<fn fn-type="other" id="fn001"><p>This article was submitted to Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology</p></fn></author-notes>
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<day>11</day>
<month>09</month>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x000A9; 2018 Mart&#x000ED;nez-Carranza, Barajas, Alcaraz, Serv&#x000ED;n-Gonz&#x000E1;lez, Ponce-Soto and Sober&#x000F3;n-Ch&#x000E1;vez.</copyright-statement>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="corrected-article" journal-id="Front Microbiol" journal-id-type="nlm-ta" vol="9" page="1059" xlink:href="10.3389/fmicb.2018.01059" ext-link-type="doi">A Corrigendum on <article-title>Variability of Bacterial Essential Genes Among Closely Related Bacteria: The Case of <italic>Escherichia coli</italic></article-title> by Mart&#x000ED;nez-Carranza, E., Barajas, H., Alcaraz, L. D., Serv&#x000ED;n-Gonz&#x000E1;lez, L., Ponce-Soto, G. Y., and Sober&#x000F3;n-Ch&#x000E1;vez, G. (2018). Front. Microbiol. 9:1059. doi: <object-id>10.3389/fmicb.2018.01059</object-id></related-article>
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<p>In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliation for Luis David Alcaraz. As well as having affiliations 2, they should also have 3. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.</p>
<p>The original article has been updated.</p>
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<title>Conflict of interest statement</title>
<p>The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.</p></sec>
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