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. (2014) Graphical methods for visualizing comparative data on phylogenies. Chapter 4 in Modern phylogenetic comparative methods and their application in evolutionary biology: Concepts and practice (L. Z. Garamszegi ed.), pp. 77-103.

Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.

See Also

plot.phylo, plotSimmap

Examples

## load tree
data(vertebrate.tree)

## create plot
plotTree(vertebrate.tree,fsize=1.2,ftype="i")

## reset margins to default
par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1))

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