Errors occurred during the uploading of the reviewed article and the authors would like to add some additional information. The following changes are to be considered to improve the quality of the paper.
Main Text. Page 4, Section 3.4 should be changed to “Comparison of the chi2 nucleotide sequences from all selected M. anisopliae (GenBank Accession (GBA): KF445078-85) isolates originating from three different parts of Africa showed no differences in the open reading frames composed of 229 amino acid residues. However, when compared with the similar chitinase sequences retrieved from NCBI database, there were differences in amino acid composition (Figure 2).”
Page 4, Section 3.4 should be changed to “The phylogenic analysis showed over 95% amino acid identity of chitinase chi2 sequence. Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum strain CQMa 102 (GBA: EFY85519) and M. robertsii ARSEF 23 (GBA: EFY95562) were genetically different from other M. anisopliae including the icipe chi2 consensus and the other three outgroups M34412 (GBA: ACU30524), E6 (GBA: AAY34347), and ARSEF 7524 (GBA: ACU30523) (Figure 3).”
Page 4, Section 3.6. should be changed to “All M. anisopliae var. anisopliae ICIPE isolates had identical chi4 nucleotide sequences (JX898505-12). After the editing process to remove the ambiguous base calls a BLAST analysis using chi4 sequence on NCBI GenBank database revealed the highest amino acid identities to M. anisopliae var. anisopliae M34412 (GBA: ACU30522) and ARSEF7524 (GBA: ACU30521) (Figure 5).”
Figure and Legands. The legands of Figures 2–5 were changed as shown below.
