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xenarthra: Molecular Phylogeny of Living Xenarthrans

Description

This phylogeny was inferred by maximum likelihood analysis of the nuclear gene BRCA1 (breast cancer susceptibility, 2788 sites) sequences for 47 placental and 3 marsupial taxa.

Usage

data(xenarthra)

Arguments

format

The data are stored as an object of class "phylo" which structure is described in the help page of the function read.tree.

source

Delsuc, F., Scally, M., Madsen, O., Stanhope, M. J., de Jong, W. W., Catzeflis, F. M., Springer, M. S. and Douzery, E. J. P. (2002) Molecular phylogeny of living xenarthrans and the impact of character and taxon sampling on the placental tree rooting. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19, 1656--1671.

See Also

read.tree

Examples

Run this code
data(xenarthra)
par(ask = TRUE)
plot(xenarthra)
### remove the margins...
plot(xenarthra, no.margin = TRUE)
### ... and use a smaller font size
plot(xenarthra, no.margin = TRUE, cex = 0.8)

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