ape (version 0.1)

skyline.plot: Skyline Plot of Estimated Effective Population Size

Description

This plots, on the current graphical device, the effective population sizes through time as estimated from a phylogenetic tree (see Pybus et al., 2000, for the rationale of the method).

Usage

skyline.plot(phy, ...)

Arguments

phy
an object of class "phylo".
...
further arguments to be passed to plot().

References

Pybus, O. G., Rambaut, A. and Harvey, P. H. (2000) An integrated framework for the inference of viral population history from reconstructed genealogies. Genetics, 155, 1429--1437.

See Also

plot for the basic plotting function in R, ltt.plot, branching.times