ade4 (version 1.7-5)

newick.eg: Phylogenetic trees in Newick format

Description

This data set contains various exemples of phylogenetic trees in Newick format.

Usage

data(newick.eg)

Format

newick.eg is a list containing 14 character strings in Newick format.

Source

Trees 1 to 7 were obtained from the URL http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html. Trees 8 and 9 were obtained by Clémentine Carpentier-Gimaret. Tree 10 was obtained from Treezilla Data Sets . Trees 11 and 12 are taken from Bauwens and D\'iaz-Uriarte (1997). Tree 13 is taken from Cheverud and Dow (1985). Tree 13 is taken from Martins and Hansen (1997).

References

Bauwens, D. and D\'iaz-Uriarte, R. (1997) Covariation of life-history traits in lacertid lizards: a comparative study. American Naturalist, 149, 91--111.

Cheverud, J. and Dow, M.M. (1985) An autocorrelation analysis of genetic variation due to lineal fission in social groups of rhesus macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 67, 113--122.

Martins, E. P. and Hansen, T.F. (1997) Phylogenies and the comparative method: a general approach to incorporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data. American Naturalist, 149, 646--667.

Examples

data(newick.eg)
newick2phylog(newick.eg[[11]])
radial.phylog(newick2phylog(newick.eg[[7]]), circ = 1,
 clabel.l = 0.75)