bandicoot_table: A taxonomic table of living and recently extinct bandicoots

In davidnipperess/PDcalc: An implementation of the Phylogenetic Diversity (PD) calculus in R

A taxonomic table of living and recently extinct bandicoots

Description

A table encoding child-parent relationships and ages of origination for each taxon (clade) defined in a dated and fully resolved phylogenetic tree of living and recently extinct bandicoots (Perameloidea). Derived from the tree published in Kear, Aplin & Westerman (2016). An example of an taxonomic table used as input for the treemakr function.

Usage

data(bandicoot_table)

Format

A data.frame with a row for each taxon and the following columns.

• Taxon is a character vector giving the names of taxa assigned to tips and internal nodes.

• Parent is a character vector giving the corresponding parent taxon, except for the root node which must be labelled as "Root".

• Node_type is a character vector labelling each row as one of "Root", "Tip" or "Internal".

• Node_age is numeric vector giving the age (to the nearest million years) of the internal node or tip. Tips have an age of 0, even those that are recently extinct.

References

Kear BP, Aplin KP & Westerman M (2016) Bandicoot fossils and DNA elucidate lineage antiquity amongst xeric-adapted Australasian marsupials. Scientific Reports 6: 37537.

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