Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 11001; published online: 05 June 2015; updated: 14 August 2015

This Article contains a typographical error in the Result section under subheading ‘Generation of BmOR1-knockout silkmoths’.

“When the RT-PCR experiments were performed with a 5′ primer designed to anneal the deleted sequence, no amplification products were detected from the homozygous mutant (hereafter referred to as BmOR1−/BmOR1+) male antennae”.

should read:

“When the RT-PCR experiments were performed with a 5′ primer designed to anneal the deleted sequence, no amplification products were detected from the homozygous mutant (hereafter referred to as BmOR1−/BmOR1−) male antennae”.