Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution
Description
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,
generalized skyline plots, estimation of absolute evolutionary
rates and clock-like trees using mean path lengths,
non-parametric rate smoothing and penalized likelihood.
Phylogeny estimation can be done with the NJ, BIONJ, ME, MVR,
SDM, and triangle methods, and several methods handling
incomplete distance matrices (NJ*, BIONJ*, MVR*, and the
corresponding triangle method).