paleotree (version 1.8.2)

taxa2cladogram: Convert Simulated Taxon Data into a Cladogram

Description

Convert ancestor-descendant relationships of taxa into an 'ideal' unscaled cladogram

Usage

taxa2cladogram(taxad, drop.cryptic = FALSE, plot = FALSE)

Arguments

taxad

A five-column matrix of taxonomic data, as output by simFossilTaxa

drop.cryptic

Should cryptic species be dropped (except for the first)? Not dropped by default.

plot

Should the result be plotted?

Value

• The resulting phylogeny without branch lengths is output as an object of class phylo. The tip labels are the rownames from the simulation input; see simFossiltaxa documentation for details.

Details

This function simulates an ideal cladistic process, where the relationships of a set of morphologically static taxa is resolved into a set of nested hierarchial relationships (a standard cladogram), as much as would be expected given the input relationships among those taxa. taxa2cladogram uses information on the ancestor-descendant relationships of a bunch of taxa and constructs an unscaled cladogram of the hierarcially-nesting relationships among those taxa. There's no actual cladistics going on, this is just a simulation of that process. If there is any chance that a set of taxa could be resolved into a set of nested relationships given their ancestor-descendant relationships, they will be resolved so in the output of taxa2cladogram. No morphological characters are considered, we just assume that if there is a nesting relationship, then it could be resolved as such. This makes it the "ideal" cladogram of a simulated clade. The result will probably not be fully resolved, as including both ancestor and descendant taxa will generally make it impossible to produce a fully nesting system of relationships. For example, consider a set of three morphologically-static taxa where the first is an ancestor (either direct or indirect, ala Foote, 1996) of both the second and third. If we imagine an ideal cladistic analysis of the morphological characters of those three taxa, this set of taxa will be unable to be broken up into bifurcating-nested relationships and thus result in a polytomy. Any set of ancestor-descendant relationships will have many of these, as some ancestors must have more than one descendant for the clade to diversify, as noted by Wagner and Erwin, 1995. If there are cryptic taxa present in the output from simFossilTaxa, these and any of their morphologically distinguishable descendants are collapsed into a polytomy to simulate the expected pattern of lack of phylogenetic resolution. In addition to this merging, cryptic taxa can be dropped via the argument drop.cryptic, such that only the first 'species' of each cryptic taxon assemblage is listed among the tip taxa (what we would actually expect to obtain, as wouldn't recognize cryptic taxa as different OTUs). By default, cryptic taxa are not dropped so that the same number of taxa as in the simulated data is retained.

References

Foote, M. 1996 On the Probability of Ancestors in the Fossil Record. Paleobiology 22(2):141-151. Wagner, P., and D. Erwin. 1995 Phylogenetic patterns as tests of speciation models. New approaches to speciation in the fossil record. Columbia University Press, New York:87-122.

See Also

simFossilTaxa, taxa2phylo

Examples

set.seed(444)
taxa<-simFossilTaxa(p=0.1,q=0.1,nruns=1,mintaxa=20,maxtaxa=30,maxtime=1000,maxExtant=0)
#let's use taxa2cladogram() to get the 'ideal' cladogram of the taxa
layout(1:2)
cladogram<-taxa2cladogram(taxa,plot=TRUE)
#compare the "real" time-scaled tree of taxon last occurrences (taxa2phylo) 
     #to the 'ideal' cladogram
tree<-taxa2phylo(taxa,plot=TRUE)

#testing with cryptic speciation
taxaCrypt<-simFossilTaxa(p=0.1,q=0.1,prop.cryptic=0.5,nruns=1,mintaxa=10,maxtaxa=20,
    maxtime=1000,maxExtant=0)
layout(1:2);parOrig<-par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
cladoCrypt1<-taxa2cladogram(taxaCrypt,drop.cryptic=FALSE)
plot(cladoCrypt1)
cladoCrypt2<-taxa2cladogram(taxaCrypt,drop.cryptic=TRUE)
plot(cladoCrypt2)
par(parOrig);layout(1) #reset plotting