Correction to: Nature Reviews Microbiology 18, 607–621 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-020-0412-1 published online 12 August 2020.

In Figure 1 of this Review article, ascomycetes and basidiomycetes were incorrectly labelled in the figure key. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the manuscript. The authors apologize to readers for this error.