TipInstability: Tip instability

In Rogue: Identify Rogue Taxa in Sets of Phylogenetic Trees

Tip instability

Description

TipInstability() calculates the instability of each leaf in a tree. Unstable leaves are likely to display roguish behaviour.

Usage

TipInstability(
  trees,
  log = TRUE,
  average = "mean",
  deviation = "sd",
  checkTips = TRUE
)

ColByStability(
  trees,
  log = TRUE,
  average = "mean",
  deviation = "sd",
  pal = hcl.colors(131, "inferno")[1:101]
)

Arguments

trees	List of trees to analyse.
log	Logical specifying whether to log-transform distances when calculating leaf stability.
average	Character specifying whether to use "mean" or "median" tip distances to calculate leaf stability.
deviation	Character specifying whether to use "sd" or "mad" to calculate leaf stability.
checkTips	Logical specifying whether to check that tips are numbered consistently.
pal	A vector listing a sequence of colours to be used for plotting. The earliest entries will be assigned to the most stable tips.

Details

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SmithCons;textualRogue defines the instability of a pair of leaves as the median absolute divergence in the graph geodesic (the number of edges in the shortest path between the leaves) across all trees, normalized against the mean graph geodesic. The instability of a single leaf is the mean instability of all pairs that include that leaf; higher values characterise leaves whose position is more variable between trees.

Other concepts of leaf instability include

• The "taxonomic instability index", as implemented in Mesquite: described by \insertCiteThomson2010;textualRogue as \sum\limits_{(x, y), j \neq i}{\frac{|D~ijx~ - D~ijy~|}{(D~ijx~ - D~ijy~)^2}}, where D~ijx~ is the patristic distance (i.e. length of edges) between leaves i and j in tree x.

• the average stability of triplets (i.e. quartets including the root) that include the leaf \insertCiteThorley1999Rogue, implemented in "Phyutility" \insertCiteSmith2008Rogue; and related to "positional congruence" measures \insertCiteEstabrook1992,Pol2009Rogue.

Value

ColByStability() returns a named character vector that assigns a colour to each leaf in trees according to their stability.

Author(s)

Martin R. Smith ([e-mail])

References

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See Also

Other tip instability functions: TipVolatility()

Examples

library("TreeTools", quietly = TRUE)
trees <- AddTipEverywhere(BalancedTree(8), "Rogue")[3:6]
plot(consensus(trees), tip.col = ColByStability(trees))
instab <- TipInstability(trees, log = FALSE, ave = "mean", dev = "mad")
plot(ConsensusWithout(trees, names(instab[instab > 0.2])))

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