Reply to Zwaenepoel et al.: Meeting the Challenges of Detecting Polyploidy Events from Transcriptomic Data

Dear Editor,Transcriptomic data have been widely employed to infer whole genome duplications (WGDs, or paleopolyploidy)(Jiao et al., 2011;Barker et al., 2016;Huang et al., 2016), through the use of large numbers of recognized paralogs with associated gene tree and Ks distributions, with the ability to date such polyploidy events.