Erratum to: J Mol Evol (2010) 70:74–84 DOI 10.1007/s00239-009-9310-x

Figure 5a of the original published article erroneously published.

Fig. 5
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BEAF-32-binding sites show a general bias near the transcription start sites (TSS) of genes only in Drosophila. a Clusters were obtained using the motif searching program Fly Enhancer (Markstein et al. 2002) using 7 CGATA motifs within a 1,000-bp window as the search parameter (D. melanogaster: n = 1,115; A. gambiae: n = 2,035; A. mellifera: n = 36,184; T. castaneum: n = 1,409). b Inclusion or removal of the DREF-binding site (DRE) during motif searching did not significantly alter the percentage of clusters <1 kb from the TSS in D. melanogaster

The x-axis labels for Figure 5a were not present in the final version. The labels should have read (from left to right): <1 kb from TSS; >1 kb from TSS; Inside Gene; Downstream.

The correct Figure 5 follows.