This is a correction to: Kristen A Behrens, Zexuan Zhao, Michael R Kidd, Alfred Maluwa, Avner Cnaani, Stephan Koblmüller, Thomas D Kocher, Before the East African radiation: sex chromosome systems in basal haplotilapiine cichlids, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2025; evaf191, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf191.
Smith et al. (2025) analyzed our sequence data for Coptodon bakossiorum, Steatocranus casuarius, Tilapia sparrmanii and Sarotherodon galilaeus. Unfortunately, we inadvertently switched the sex phenotypes associated with the sequence data during the SRA submission process, leading Smith et al. (2025) to incorrectly infer the heterogametic sex in C. bakossiorum, T. sparrmanii and S. galilaeus. We did not discover this error until after our manuscript was accepted at GBE. The results in our manuscript are based on the original sequence files, which have been resubmitted under BioProject PRJNA802233. We have asked NCBI to delete the incorrect accessions in BioProject PRJNA669839.
Smith SH, Kukowka S, Böhne A. Investigation of sex determination in African cichlids reveals lack of fixed sex chromosomes in wild populations. J Evol Biol. 2025 Aug 2;38(7):980-999. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf013. PMID: 39945733.