plotTree: Plots rooted phylogenetic tree

In phytools: Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

Plots rooted phylogenetic tree

Description

Essentially a wrapper for plotSimmap. Arguments in ... are passed to plotSimmap, with the exception of optional argument color which is used to determine the plotted color of the branch lengths of the tree.

Usage

plotTree(tree, ...)

Arguments

tree	a phylogenetic tree in "phylo" format; or multiple trees as an object of class "multiPhylo".
...	optional arguments.

Details

Plots a rooted phylogram or cladogram.

Value

This function plots a rooted phylogram or cladogram.

Author(s)

Liam Revell [e-mail]

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

See Also

plot.phylo, plotSimmap

Examples

data(vertebrate.tree)
plotTree(vertebrate.tree,fsize=1.2,ftype="i")
par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1)) ## reset margins to default

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