View source: R/locate.fossil.R
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Uses ML to place a fossil lineage into a tree using continuous traits following Revell et al. (2015).
locate.fossil(tree, X, ...)
tree |
an object of class |
X |
a matrix with continuous character data. |
... |
optional arguments including |
Optimized tree as an object of class "phylo"
.
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
Felsenstein, J. (1981) Maximum likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters. American Journal of Human Genetics, 25, 471-492.
Felsenstein, J. (2002) Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics. In: MacLeod, N. and P. Forey (Eds.) Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny (pp. 27-44). Taylor and Francis, London.
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.
Revell, L. J., D. L. Mahler, R. G. Reynolds, and G. J. Slater. (2015) Placing cryptic, recently extinct, or hypothesized taxa into an ultrametric phylogeny using continuous, character data: A case study with the lizard Anolis roosevelti. Evolution, 69, 1027-1035.
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