landplants: Gene Tree of 36 Landplant rbcL Sequences

In gjuggler/ape: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

Description

This data set describes a gene tree estimated from 36 landplant rbcL sequences.

Usage

data(landplants.newick)

Format

landplants.newick is a string with the tree in Newick format.

Source

This tree is described in Sanderson (1997) and is also a data example in the software package r8s (http://ginger.ucdavis.edu/r8s/).

References

Sanderson, M. J. (1997) A nonparametric approach to estimating divergence times in the absence of rate constancy. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 14, 1218–1231.

Examples

# example tree in NH format (a string)
data("landplants.newick")
landplants.newick

# get corresponding phylo object
tree.landplants <- read.tree(text = landplants.newick)

# plot tree
plot(tree.landplants, label.offset = 0.001)

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