shark_tree: A molecular phylogeny of the sharks

shark_treeR Documentation

A molecular phylogeny of the sharks

Description

An (uncalibrated) phylogenetic tree with 231 species from the eight extant shark orders. Number of edges: 463. Branch lengths correspond to molecular distances. Tips are labelled as follows: Genus_species. Can be processed using the package ape. The data were kindly provided by Ximena Vélez-Zuazo.

Usage

shark_tree

Format

An object of class phylo

References

Vélez-Zuazo & Agnarsson. Shark tales: A molecular species-level phylogeny of sharks (Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58:2, 207-217 (Link)

Examples

data(shark_tree)
plot(shark_tree, cex=0.1)

naturalis/nbaR documentation built on Nov. 12, 2023, 4:47 p.m.