Nice article. Interestingly a WGD at the base of metazoans was also suggested in an earlier study based on duplication profiles from thousands of gene trees. See:
The Human Phylome. Huerta-Cepas. Dopazo, Dopazo, and Gabaldon Genome Biol. 2007; 8(6): R109
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I am the corresponding author in the mentioned paper
Ancestral WGD at the base of metazoans
7 September 2015
Nice article. Interestingly a WGD at the base of metazoans was also suggested in an earlier study based on duplication profiles from thousands of gene trees. See:
The Human Phylome. Huerta-Cepas. Dopazo, Dopazo, and Gabaldon Genome Biol. 2007; 8(6): R109
Competing interests
I am the corresponding author in the mentioned paper