bird.families


  This data set describes the phylogenetic relationships of the families
  of birds as reported by Sibley and Ahlquist (1990). Sibley and
  Ahlquist inferred this phylogeny from an extensive number of DNA/DNA
  hybridization experiments. The ``tapestry'' reported by these two
  authors (more than 1000 species out of the ca. 9000 extant bird
  species) generated a lot of debates.<p></p><p>  The present tree is based on the relationships among families. A few
  families were not included in the figures in Sibley and Ahlquist, and
  thus are not included here as well. The branch lengths were calculated
  from the values of $Delta T50H$ as found in Sibley
  and Ahlquist (1990, figs. 354, 355, 356, and 369).
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Functions for reading, writing, plotting, and manipulating phylogenetic trees, analyses of comparative data in a phylogenetic framework, ancestral character analyses, analyses of diversification and macroevolution, computing distances from DNA sequences, reading and writing nucleotide sequences as well as importing from BioConductor, and several tools such as Mantel's test, generalized skyline plots, graphical exploration of phylogenetic data (alex, trex, kronoviz), estimation of absolute evolutionary rates and clock-like trees using mean path lengths and penalized likelihood, dating trees with non-contemporaneous sequences, translating DNA into AA sequences, and assessing sequence alignments. Phylogeny estimation can be done with the NJ, BIONJ, ME, MVR, SDM, and triangle methods, and several methods handling incomplete distance matrices (NJ*, BIONJ*, MVR*, and the corresponding triangle method). Some functions call external applications (PhyML, Clustal, T-Coffee, Muscle, MAFFT) whose results are returned into R.

Emmanuel Paradis

Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

bird.families function

The data are stored as an object of class <code>"phylo"</code> which
  structure is described in the help page of the function
  <code><a rd-options="" href="/link/read.tree?package=ape&version=4.0" data-mini-rdoc="ape::read.tree">read.tree</a></code>.

Format

Sibley, C. G. and Ahlquist, J. E. (1990) Phylogeny and classification
  of birds: a study in molecular evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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  This data set describes the phylogenetic relationships of the families
  of birds as reported by Sibley and Ahlquist (1990). Sibley and
  Ahlquist inferred this phylogeny from an extensive number of DNA/DNA
  hybridization experiments. The ``tapestry'' reported by these two
  authors (more than 1000 species out of the ca. 9000 extant bird
  species) generated a lot of debates.

  The present tree is based on the relationships among families. A few
  families were not included in the figures in Sibley and Ahlquist, and
  thus are not included here as well. The branch lengths were calculated
  from the values of $Delta T50H$ as found in Sibley
  and Ahlquist (1990, figs. 354, 355, 356, and 369).


The data are stored as an object of class <code>"phylo"</code> which
  structure is described in the help page of the function
  <code><a rd-options='' href='read.tree'>read.tree</a></code>.

bird.families: Phylogeny of the Families of Birds From Sibley and Ahlquist

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