Correction to: Heredity (2016) 116, 190–199; doi:10.1038/hdy.2015.89; published online 30 September 2015

Following the publication of this article, the authors have requested that the wording in the Acknowledgements section be replaced with ‘This study was supported by a Direct Grant (405303) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. PWHH was supported by the ERC. We thank Stephen Smith of Virginia Tech for help supplying L. polyphemus samples.’

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