getmrca: Find most recent common ancestors

In BAMMtools: Analysis and Visualization of Macroevolutionary Dynamics on Phylogenetic Trees

Find most recent common ancestors

Description

Calculates the most recent common ancestor for each pair of tips. Used internally by getEventData.

Usage

getmrca(phy, t1, t2)

Arguments

phy	An object of class phylo.
t1	A vector of mode integer or character corresponding to tips in phy.
t2	A vector of mode integer or character corresponding to tips in phy.

Details

Finds the most recent common ancestor for each pair of tips where pairs are defined as (t1[1], t2[1]), (t1[2], t2[2]), ... , (t1[i], t2[i]), ... ,(t1[n], t2[n]).

Value

A vector of node numbers of the common ancestor for each pair of tips.

Author(s)

Mike Grundler

See Also

subtreeBAMM

BAMMtools documentation built on July 16, 2022, 1:05 a.m.