Correction: Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants

Martinez-Ruiz C, Pracana R, Stolle E, Paris CI, Nichols RA, Wurm Y. 2020. Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants. eLife 9:e55862. doi: 10.7554/eLife.55862.

Published 10, August 2020

After publication, we noticed minor typographical errors that were missed during proofing in the captions of Figures 3 and 4d and Figure 1 Supplementary figures 2, 3 and 4 as well as Results and Methods. All of these errors emerged due to text re-arrangements in the later stages of review or during typesetting. None of the errors affect our results nor our interpretations.

Original caption of Figure 3:

Values of P_B below 0.5 therefore indicate higher expression in SB/SB queens from single-queen colonies; values above 0.5 indicate higher expression in SB/Sb queens from multiple-queen colonies. Values of P_MQ above 0.5 indicate allelic bias towards SB; values below 0.5 indicate bias towards Sb.

Corrected caption of Figure 3:

Values of P_MQ below 0.5 therefore indicate higher expression in SB/SB queens from single-queen colonies; values above 0.5 indicate higher expression in SB/Sb queens from multiple-queen colonies. Values of P_B above 0.5 indicate allelic bias towards SB; values below 0.5 indicate bias towards Sb.

Original caption of Figure 4d:

...the genes with higher expression of the Sb allele (x > 0) tend to be more highly expressed in queens from multiple-queen colonies (y < 0)...

Corrected caption of Figure 4d:

...the genes with higher expression of the Sb allele (y < 0) tend to be more highly expressed in queens from multiple-queen colonies (x > 0)...

Original caption of Figure 1 Figure supplements 2, 3 and 4

Differences in allele-specific expression between variants (x axis) for all genes in the supergene with enough expression information (y axis). Significant expression differences (BH adjusted p<0.05 from Wald test in DESeq2) are in green and the RefSeq ID of the significant gene is outlined in the y axis.

Corrected caption of Figure 1 Figure supplements 2, 3 and 4

Differences in allele-specific expression between variants (y axis) for all genes in the supergene with enough expression information (x axis). Significant expression differences (BH adjusted p<0.05 from Wald test in DESeq2) are in green and the RefSeq ID of the significant gene is outlined in the x axis.

In Results:

Original:

Most of these genes (Bergero and Charlesworth, 2009) had higher expression in SB...

Corrected:

Most of these genes (12) had higher expression in SB...

In Methods:

Original:

We then aligned the RNAseq reads from each sample to the regular reference genome (version gnG; RefSeq GCF_000188075.1; [Darlington and Mather, 1949])...

Corrected:

We then aligned the RNAseq reads from each sample to the regular reference genome (version gnG; RefSeq GCF_000188075.1)...

Original:

For the North American and Taiwanese datasets (Wurm et al., 2011),...

Corrected:

For the North American and Taiwanese datasets (Wurm et al., 2011; Fontana et al., 2020),...

Original:

...single-queen vs. multiple-queen expression for each gene (X_SQ vs. X_MQ) from the Wurm et al., 2011 dataset and expression of the SB allelic variant vs. the Sb (X_B vs. X_b) within each gene from the Morandin et al., 2016...

Corrected:

...single-queen vs. multiple-queen expression for each gene (X_SQ vs. X_MQ) from the Morandin et al., 2016 dataset and expression of the SB allelic variant vs. the Sb (X_B vs. X_b) within each gene from the Wurm et al., 2011...

The article has been corrected accordingly.