bird.orders

This data set describes the phylogenetic relationships of the orders
  of birds as reported by Sibley and Ahlquist (1990). Sibley and
  Ahlquist inferred this phylogeny from an extensive number of DNA/DNA
  hybridization experiments. The ``tapestry'' reported by these two
  authors (more than 1000 species out of the ca. 9000 extant bird
  species) generated a lot of debates.<p></p><p>  The present tree is based on the relationships among orders. The
  branch lengths were calculated from the values of $\Delta
    T_{50}H$ as found in Sibley and Ahlquist (1990,
  fig. 353).</p>

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ape provides functions for reading, writing, plotting,
  and manipulating phylogenetic trees, analyses of comparative data
  in a phylogenetic framework, analyses of diversification and
  macroevolution, computing distances from allelic and nucleotide
  data, reading nucleotide sequences, and several tools such as
  Mantel's test, computation of minimum spanning tree, the population
  parameter theta based on various approaches, nucleotide diversity,
  generalized skyline plots, estimation of absolute evolutionary rates
  and clock-like trees using mean path lengths, non-parametric rate
  smoothing and penalized likelihood, classifying genes in trees using
  the Klastorin-Misawa-Tajima approach. Phylogeny estimation can be done
  with the NJ, BIONJ, ME, and ML methods.

Emmanuel Paradis

Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

bird.orders function

The data are stored as an object of class <code>"phylo"</code> which
  structure is described in the help page of the function
  <code><a href="/link/read.tree?package=ape&version=2.0-2" rd-options="" data-mini-rdoc="ape::read.tree">read.tree</a></code>.

format

Sibley, C. G. and Ahlquist, J. E. (1990) Phylogeny and classification
  of birds: a study in molecular evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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bird.orders: Phylogeny of the Orders of Birds From Sibley and Ahlquist

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