About the Authors

Dale N. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Population Genetics, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Mark F. Rogers

Affiliation Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Adam Labadorf

Affiliation Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Asa Ben-Hur

Affiliation Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Hui Guo

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Andrew H. Paterson

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Anireddy S. N. Reddy

reddy@lamar.colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: DNR. Conceived the project: DNR ASNR ABH. Gathered and processed all sequence data for gene tree analysis: DNR. Prepared sequences for AS analysis: DNR. Performed the AS analysis and managed the pipeline originally enhanced by AL: MFR. Performed the gene duplication analysis: HG. As principal investigators supervised the project: ASNR ABH AHP. All authors contributed to editing and writing the manuscript.