Tracing evolutionary history and admixture in mixed‐ploidy systems

Polyploidy, resulting from whole genome duplication, is a widespread phenomenon throughout Eukaryotic kingdoms. It estimated that 15% of speciation events in plants due to polyploidization and 16% plant species encompass ploidy variation. In spite the evolutionary economic significance polyploidy, there limited set tools would allow routine population genetic genomic analysis polyploid systems, particular for inference diversity differentiation large genome-wide data sets (Dufresne et al., 2014; Meirmans, 2020). Such shortage striking especially when compared rapid development such diploid systems over last decade. Consequently, research polyploids still lagging behind diploids, autopolyploids, example, with multiple (>2) similar copies. this issue Molecular Ecology Resources, Shastry al. (2021) develops first software specifically designed infer structure ancestry mixed-ploidy sets, opening novel opportunities analysis.