getGenus {RRphylo}

Taxonomic inspection of the tree at the genus level

Description

The function returns the most recent common ancestor and the number of species belonging to each or some user-specified genera within the phylogenetic tree.

Usage

getGenus(tree,genera=NULL)

Arguments

tree

a phylogenetic tree. The tree needs not to be ultrametric and fully dichotomous. Generic name and specific epithet must be separated by '_'.

genera

a character vector including one or more genera to focus on. Please notice the function is case sensitive.

Value

The function returns a data-frame including the number of species and the most recent common ancestor of each genera.

Author(s)

Silvia Castiglione, Pasquale Raia, Carmela Serio

Examples

DataCetaceans$treecet->tree

getGenus(tree)
getGenus(tree,c("Mesoplodon","Balaenoptera"))