tools to detect age of duplication

Question

[gurpreet.kaur]

What methods could be used to find out the age of duplication event in the plant genome of Arabidopsis thaliana.

[Michael]

Check this paper http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/8/1334.full

Answer 1

[Aerval]

well, you can make a family tree with closely related strains and check how far back the duplication exists or, if it is further away, estimate it via the similarity between the duplicats and the mutation rate for arabidopsis.