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Journal of Heredity 2013:104(1):159–160
doi:10.1093/jhered/ess104

Published by Oxford University Press 2012.
Erratum
Jeff A. Johnson, Angie D. Ambers, and Kurt K. Burnham
From the Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle
#310559, Denton, TX 76203 (Johnson and Ambers); and the High Arctic Institute, Orion, IL 61273 (Burnham)
Address correspondence to J. A. Johnson at the address above, or e-mail: [email protected]
In Johnson et al. (2012) the nucleotide substitution at position 668 for allele 5 in Figure 2 should be given for allele
6. The corrected figure is presented in this Erratum.
The correction in Figure 2 resulted in the following changes:
The last sentence of the Results (pg 318)
Plumage colors among Gyrfalcons possessing the remaining 2 nonsynonymous point substitutions (Arg142Cys and
Thr261Ile) suggest no correlation with the white phenotype.
A single silver Gyrfalcon was heterozygous with the Arg142Cys
substitution (allele 4) and allele 1. Of the individuals with the
Thr261Ile substitution and of known plumage color, 1 was
homozygous with allele 6 (gray), while the remaining 3 where
heterozygous with either allele 1 (silver, gray) or with allele 3
(gray; Figure 2). No plumage color information was available
for the 2 Gyrfalcons possessing allele 9, which were both heterozygous with allele 1 (Figure 2).
The second to last paragraph of the Discussion (pg 319)
The nonsynonymous substition at Thr261Ile in the sixth
transmembrane domain of the MC1R gene does not
appear associated with white plumage color in Gyrfalcon.
Two individuals were heterozygous with allele 1, which
possessed the Val128Ile substitution, yet were either gray
or silver in color, and a third Gyrfalcon was homozygous
for allele 6 (Thr261Ile), but gray suggesting that this amino
acid substitution does not disrupt melanin production in
this species.
Figure 2. Distribution of 9 MC1R alleles observed among Gyrfalcon populations. Vertical numbers indicate the positions of
variable nucleotides within 729 bp of sequence. The 3 gray columns indicate nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions; * indicates
the nucleotide position, or Val128Ile, perfectly associated with plumage color variants. Dots under nucleotide positions indicate
an identical nucleotide as given with allele 1. The total number of each allele is given for sampled populations. MC1R haplotype
sequences were deposited in GenBank (accession numbers JQ290354-JQ290362).
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The first sentence of the last paragraph of the Discussion
(pg 319)
Arg142Cys
The nonsynonymous substitution at
located
on the third transmembrane domain of the MC1R gene
requires further study because insufficient phenotypic variation existed among Gyrfalcons to determine its correlation
with plumage color.
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Reference
Johnson JA, Ambers AD, Burnham KK. 2012. Genetics of plumage color in
the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus): analysis of the melanocortin-1 receptor gene.
J Hered. 103:315–321.