Erratum

This article refers to:

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Red-billed Starling, Sturnus sericeus (Aves: Passeriformes): The first representative of the family Sturnidae with a single control region

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Grey-backed Shrike, Lanius tephronotus (Aves: Passeriformes): The first representative of the family Laniidae with a novel CAA stop codon at the end of cox2 gene

Complete mitochondrial genome of the ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus (Galliformes: Phasianidae)

In the articles listed below, the authors’ affiliation addresses were incorrectly written as ‘Republic of China’ instead of ‘People’s Republic of China’. The article details and correct affiliations are provided below:

Li XF, Ren QQ, Kan XZ, Qian CC, Li XX, Qian M (2013). Complete mitochondrial genome of the ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus (Galliformes: Phasianidae). Mitochondrial DNA 24(2):89–90

Xifeng Li^1,2, Qiongqiong Ren¹, Xianzhao Kan^1,2, Chaoju Qian¹, Xixi Li¹, and Min Qian¹

¹The Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation Research of Biological Resources in Anhui, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China, and ²College of Life Sciences, The Institute of Bioinformatics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, People's Republic of China

Qian CJ, Ren QQ, Kan XZ, Guo ZC, Yang JK, Li XX, Yuan J, Qian M, Hu, Q, Zhang L (2013). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Red-billed Starling, Sturnus sericeus (Aves: Passeriformes): the first representative of the family Sturnidae with a single control region. Mitochondrial DNA 24(2):129–31

Chaoju Qian^1,2, Qiongqiong Ren¹, Xianzhao Kan^1,2, Zhichun Guo¹, Jianke Yang³, Xixi Li¹, Jian Yuan¹, Min Qian¹, Qi Hu¹, and Lei Zhang¹

¹The Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation Research of Biological Resources in Anhui, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China, ²College of Life Sciences, The Institute of Bioinformatics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China, and ³Department of Medical Biology, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China

Qian CJ, Yan X, Guo ZC, Yang JK, Kan, XZ (2013) Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Gray-backed Shrike, Lanius tephronotus (Aves: Passeriformes): the first representative of the family Laniidae with a novel CAA stop codon at the end of cox2 gene. Mitochondrial DNA, 24(4):359–61

Chaoju Qian¹, Xia Yan², Zhicun Guo¹, Yuanxiu Wang¹, Xixi Li¹, Jianke Yang³, and Xianzhao Kan^1,4

¹The Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation Research of Biological Resources in Anhui, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China, ²Heihe Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology and Integrated River Basin Science, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China, ³Department of Medical Biology, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China, and ⁴College of Life Sciences, The Institute of Bioinformatics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China.

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