Correction to: Journal of Molecular Evolution https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09971-z

The original version of the article unfortunately contained an error in Figure 2. Incorrect version of Dr. Taka-aki Yano has been published. Figure 2 with the corrected image of Dr. Taka-aki Yano is given below.

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The quest for the best evolutionary model. The simplest nucleotide substitution model (JK69; (Jukes and Cantor 1969) was improved in the early 1980s by adding parameters that either assumed different types of substitution (K80, K81; Kimura 1980, 1981), unequal base frequencies (F81; (Felsenstein 1981) or both (HKY85; (Hasegawa et al. 1985)

The original article has been corrected.