Correction to: Heredity (2014) 113, 526–532. doi:10.1038/hdy.2014.57

Upon publication of the above paper in Volume 113, the authors recognised the need to change the authorship slightly and amend the corresponding author details. The corrected authorship and correspondence details are detailed below:

H Gao1,5, Y Wu1,5, T Zhang2, Y Wu3, L Jiang4, J Zhan4, J Li1 and R Yang4

1Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA; 3School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 4Research Centre for Aquatic Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.5 These authors contributed equally to this work.

Correspondence: Dr J Li, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: JL1@iascaas.net.cn and Dr R Yang, Research Centre for Aquatic Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: runqingyang@sjtu.edu.cn.