Evidence for an ancient whole genome duplication in the cycad lineage

• Danielle Roodt,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Rolf Lohaus,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium, Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Lieven Sterck,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium, Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Riaan L. Swanepoel,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Yves Van de Peer,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium, Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Eshchar Mizrachi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eshchar.mizrachi@fabi.up.ac.za

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3126-9593

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