Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38548, published online 07 December 2016

The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete.

“This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaſt (LU 852/7–4). We thank Pavel Kosintsev for ancient horse samples from the Caspian Sea region. We thank Dietmar Lieckfeldt and Melanie Pruvost for their assistance as well as Dorina Lenz for helping with the data analyses. We also acknowledge the valuable comments from Dolores Carmen Morales-Muñiz about the Riders of the Apocalypse.”

should read:

“This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaſt (LU 852/7–4). We thank Pavel Kosintsev for ancient horse samples from the Caspian Sea region. We thank Dietmar Lieckfeldt and Melanie Pruvost for their assistance as well as Dorina Lenz for helping with the data analyses. We also acknowledge the valuable comments from Dolores Carmen Morales-Muñiz about the Riders of the Apocalypse. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 681605).”