It is regretted that the originally published paper (Okpeku et al., Reference Okpeku, Peters, Ozoje, Adebambo, Agaviezor, O'Neill and Imumorin2011) was not the authors' final amended version and contained incorrect figure captions. We apologize for this oversight and reproduce the correct figure captions here.

Figure 1. UPGMA dendrogram showing degree of diversity in Nigerian goats in southern Nigeria

Figure 2. UPGMA dendrogram showing degree of diversity among goat populations in southern Nigeria

Figure 3. West African Dwarf goat

Figure 4. Red Sokoto goat

Figure 5. Sahel goat