Erratum to: J Mol Evol (2016) 83:126–136 DOI 10.1007/s00239-016-9759-3

The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error. The presentation of Figure 1 was incorrect. The figure got distorted during the image conversion. The corrected Fig. 1 is given below.

Fig. 1
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The length distribution of small RNAs between 18 and 36 nt in a male and female D. fuscus. The peaks at 27–31 nt likely correspond to piRNAs, whereas the peaks at 22–23 nt likely correspond to siRNAs and miRNA