Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18822-9, published online 15 January 2018

This Article contains errors in Reference 17 which was incorrectly given as:

Shikano, K. et al. Effects of chronic intracerebroventricular infusion of neurosecretory protein GL on body mass and food and water intake in chicks. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol 256, 37–42 (2017).

The correct reference is listed below as ref.1.