diff --git a/bench/nucleotide/nucleotide.c b/bench/nucleotide/nucleotide.c
index c1a47b7b..69edd183 100644
--- a/bench/nucleotide/nucleotide.c
+++ b/bench/nucleotide/nucleotide.c
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 #include <time.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <assert.h>
-#include <pthread.h>
 
 #include "m-worker.h"
 #include "m-dict.h"