.The original version of this Article contained typographical errors in the spelling of the authors David R. Yáñez-Ruiz, Cesar Pinares-Patiño and Camila Muñoz, which were incorrectly given as David R. Yanez-Ruiz, Cesar Pinares-Patino and Camila Munoz respectively.In addition, Leticia Abecia, Gonzalo Martinez and David R. Yáñez-Ruiz were incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand’. The correct affiliation is listed below:Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 18100 Armilla, Granada, SpainErika Angarita, Claudia Ariza, Edgar Macipe, Olga Lucía Mayorga, Lorena Mestre, Sonia Ospina, Tatiana Rodriguez and Ricardo Zambrano were incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain’. The correct affiliation is listed below:Animal Nutrition, Biotechnology and Bioindustry Center, Corporación Colombiana de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Bogota, ColombiaPaula Aravena and Jorge Avila-Stagno were incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Animal Nutrition, Biotechnology and Bioindustry Center, Corporación Colombiana de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Bogota, Colombia’. The correct affiliation is listed below:Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, Chillan, ChileGraciela Nora Arenas & Diego Javier Grilli were incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, Chillan, Chile’. The correct affiliation is listed below:Área Microbiología, Departamento de Patología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Centro Universitario, Parque General San Martín S/N, 5500 Mendoza, ArgentinaGraeme T. Attwood, Mariano Batistotti, Adrian L. Cookson, Dragana Gagić, William J. Kelly, Suzanne Lambie, Sinead C. Leahy, Cesar Pinares-Patiño and Xuezhao Sun were incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Área Microbiología, Departamento de Patología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Centro Universitario, Parque General San Martín S/N, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina’. The correct affiliation is listed below:AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New ZealandIn addition, there was a typographical error in Affiliation 39 which was incorrectly listed as ‘Department of Animal Science & Technology, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540–743, Korea’. The correct affiliation is listed below:Department of Animal Science & Technology, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540–742, KoreaLastly, there was a typographical error in the project number in the Acknowledgements section.“Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development (project number PJ0074512012)”now reads:“Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development (project number PJ010906)”These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.