This article is a correction to:
Plastic biodegradation by in vitro environmental microorganisms and in vivo gut microorganisms of insects
Xian-Guang Yang
Ping-Ping Wen
Yi-Fan Yang1,2
De-Sheng Pei- 1State Key Laboratory Base of Cell Differentiation and Regulation, College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
- 2School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
A corrigendum on
Plastic biodegradation by in vitro environmental microorganisms and in vivo gut microorganisms of insects
by Yang, X.-G., Wen, P.-P., Yang, Y.-F., Jia, P.-P., Li, W.-G., and Pei, D.-S. (2023). Front. Microbiol. 13:1001750. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1001750
In the published article, there was an error in a section title. Instead of Biodegradation of plastics by insects, it should be Biodegradation of plastics by insects and other invertebrate.
In the published article, there was an error in Tables 2, 3 as published. The heading Insect species in the first cell of the first column and row of Tables 2, 3 were incorrect, due to the fact that not all species listed in these tables are insects. For instance, Achatina fulica is not an insect but rather a mollusk belonging to the class Gastropoda. Sphaeroma terebrans is not an insect but rather an Arthropoda belonging to the class Crustacea.
The corrected Tables 2, 3 and their captions appear below.
Table 2
Table 2. The confirmed plastic-degrading insects and their ability to degrade diverse plastic materials.
Table 3
Table 3. The reported plastics-eating insects and the corresponding plastic types.
In the published article, there was an error. A correction has been made to the Biodegradation of plastics by insects, paragraph two. The statement is incomplete, as the species enumerated in Tables 2, 3 are not entirely composed of insects. This sentence previously stated:
“Due to different insect species, plastic materials, and evaluation methods, it is difficult to simply describe the differences in the degradation rates of various insects, but specific degradation efficiency data are summarized in Table 2. In addition, except for the insects that confirmed their capabilities of plastic biodegradation, other insects were also reported to eat plastics (Table 3), but their degradation abilities need further studies”.
The corrected sentence appears below:
“Due to different invertebrate species, plastic materials, and evaluation methods, it is difficult to simply describe the differences in the degradation rates of various insects, but specific degradation efficiency data are summarized in Table 2. In addition, except for the invertebrates that confirmed their capabilities of plastic biodegradation, other invertebrates were also reported to eat plastics (Table 3), but their degradation abilities need further studies”.
The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: enzyme, gut microbes, insects, invertebrate, plastic biodegradation
Citation: Yang X-G, Wen P-P, Yang Y-F, Jia P-P, Li W-G and Pei D-S (2024) Corrigendum: Plastic biodegradation by in vitro environmental microorganisms and in vivo gut microorganisms of insects. Front. Microbiol. 15:1444678. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1444678
Received: 25 June 2024; Accepted: 25 June 2024;
Published: 08 July 2024.
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*Correspondence: De-Sheng Pei, peids@cqmu.edu.cn
†These authors have contributed equally to this work