fishtree_rogues: Get rogue taxa that break the monophyly of defined taxa

In fishtree: Interface to the Fish Tree of Life API

Description

For groups that were recovered as paraphyletic in the phylogenetic analysis, uses the Fish Tree of Life API to identify which species prevented that clade from being recovered as monophyletic.

Usage

fishtree_rogues(rank)

Arguments

rank	the (possibly paraphyletic) rank for which rogue or intruder species should be identified.

Value

A vector of species names, potentially empty.

References

Rabosky, D. L., Chang, J., Title, P. O., Cowman, P. F., Sallan, L., Friedman, M., Kashner, K., Garilao, C., Near, T. J., Coll, M., Alfaro, M. E. (2018). An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes. Nature, 559(7714), 392–395. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0273-1

Examples

## Not run: 
fishtree_rogues("Gobiidae")   # several rogue taxa!
fishtree_rogues("Labridae")   # nice and monophlyetic

## End(Not run)

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