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Phylogenies and quantitative traits from Abouheif

abouheif.eg.Rd

This data set gathers three phylogenies with three sets of traits as reported by Abouheif (1999).

Usage

data(abouheif.eg)

Format

abouheif.eg is a list containing the 6 following objects :

tre1

is a character string giving the first phylogenetic tree made up of 8 leaves.

vec1

is a numeric vector with 8 values.

tre2

is a character string giving the second phylogenetic tree made up of 7 leaves.

vec2

is a numeric vector with 7 values.

tre3

is a character string giving the third phylogenetic tree made up of 15 leaves.

vec3

is a numeric vector with 15 values.

Source

Data taken from the phylogenetic independence program developed by Ehab Abouheif

References

Abouheif, E. (1999) A method for testing the assumption of phylogenetic independence in comparative data. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 1, 895–909.

Examples

data(abouheif.eg)
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
symbols.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre1), abouheif.eg$vec1,
 sub = "Body Mass (kg)", csi = 2, csub = 2)
symbols.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre2), abouheif.eg$vec2,
 sub = "Body Mass (kg)", csi = 2, csub = 2)
dotchart.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre1), abouheif.eg$vec1,
 sub = "Body Mass (kg)", cdot = 2, cnod = 1, possub = "topleft",
  csub = 2, ceti = 1.5)
dotchart.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre2), abouheif.eg$vec2,
 sub = "Body Mass (kg)", cdot = 2, cnod = 1, possub = "topleft",
  csub = 2, ceti = 1.5)

par(mfrow = c(1,1))

w.phy=newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre3)
dotchart.phylog(w.phy,abouheif.eg$vec3, clabel.n = 1)