Volume 21, No. 4 (2004), in the article “Bottleneck Effects on the Sika Deer Cervus nippon Population in Hokkaido, Revealed by Ancient DNA Analysis” by D. Nabata et al., page [Related article:] 473–481, for the reader's convenience, the corrections appear as follows;

page 473 in author name and address:

Daichi Nabata¹, Ryuichi Masuda² and Osamu Takahashi³

¹Division of Bioscience, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

²Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

³Chitose Salmon Aquarium/Museum, Chitose 066-0028, Japan

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Daichi Nabata¹, Ryuichi Masuda², Osamu Takahashi³ and Junco Nagata⁴

¹Division of Bioscience, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

²Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

³Chitose Salmon Aquarium/Museum, Chitose 066-0028, Japan

⁴Laboratory of Wildlife, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-8687, Japan

page 475, line18 and page 478,

The following sentence was added in “MATERIALS AND METHODS (page 475, line18 in the left side)” and in the footnote of Table 2 (page 478).

“LD5, LD13, HD2 and HD8 were cited from Nagata et al. (1998a).”