whale_phylo: Whale Phylogeny

whale_phyloR Documentation

Whale Phylogeny

Description

An ultrametric phylogenetic tree of the living cetaceans. Phylogeny generated by Steeman et al (2009). This dataset is part of the package and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Usage

whale_phylo

Format

An ultrametric phylo object with 87 tips

Source

Original phylogeny generation by Steeman et al (2001). File obtained from Rabosky et al, 2014.

References

Rabosky, D. L., Grundler, M., Anderson, C., Title, P., Shi, J. J., Brown, J. W., ... & Larson, J. G. (2014). BAMM tools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(7), 701-707.

Steeman, M. E., Hebsgaard, M. B., Fordyce, R. E., Ho, S. Y., Rabosky, D. L., Nielsen, R., ... & Willerslev, E. (2009). Radiation of extant cetaceans driven by restructuring of the oceans. Systematic biology, 58(6), 573-585.


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