terminalSisters: Find Pairs of Sister Species

In ips: Interfaces to Phylogenetic Software in R

Find Pairs of Sister Species

Description

Finds pairs of sister species in a phylogenetic tree.

Usage

terminalSisters(phy, labels = TRUE)

Arguments

phy	An object of class phylo.
labels	Logical, indicating whether to return tip labels or tip numbers.

Value

A list of which each element contains the tip labels of a sister species pair.

Examples

set.seed(1234)
tr <- rtree(12)
plot(tr)
terminalSisters(tr)

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