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phytools (version 2.3-0)

plotTree: 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, ...)

Value

This function plots a rooted phylogram or cladogram.

Arguments

tree

a phylogenetic tree in "phylo" format; or multiple trees as an object of class "multiPhylo".

...

optional arguments.

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

Plots a rooted phylogram or cladogram.

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

Run this code
data(vertebrate.tree)
plotTree(vertebrate.tree,fsize=1.2,ftype="i")
par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1)) ## reset margins to default

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