Reply to Gaudry et al.: Cross-validation is necessary for the identification of pseudogenes

Affiliations

• ¹ Marine Mammal and Marine Bioacoustics Laboratory, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China.
• ² School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
• ³ Integrative Biology Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China.
• ⁴ School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ BGI-Qingdao, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao 266555, China.
• ⁷ BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
• ⁸ Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark.
• ⁹ Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
• ¹⁰ State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
• ¹¹ School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China; lish@idsse.ac.cn wangkun@nwpu.edu.cn.
• ¹² Marine Mammal and Marine Bioacoustics Laboratory, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China; lish@idsse.ac.cn wangkun@nwpu.edu.cn.
• ¹³ Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.