Stephen J O'Brien1. 1. Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St, Petersburg State University, St, Petersburg, Russia. lgdchief@gmail.com.
In the article ‘Genome empowerment for the Puerto Rican parrot – Amazona vittata. GigaScience 2012 1:13’ [1] the leadership of avian phylogenomic project [2] mentioned in commentary should have been Guojie Zhang, Erich Jarvis, and Tom Gilbert [2]. We regret this omission.