conifers {TESS}

Conifer phylogeny from Leslie et al. (2012)

Description

This phylogeny describes the species relationships and divergence times of the plant order Conifera, published in Leslie et al. (2012).

Usage

data(conifers)

Format

The phylogeny is stored as an object of class "phylo". The structure is described in the help page of the function read.tree of the package ape.

Source

Leslie, A. B., J. M. Beaulieu, H. S. Rai, P. R. Crane, M. J. Donoghue, and S. Mathews. 2012. Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:16217-16221.

Examples

# load the tree
data(conifers)

# safe the settings of the plotting device
op <- par()

# set the line width for plotting the branches
par(cex = 0.3)

# plot the phylogenetic tree
plot(conifers)

# restore the settings of the device
par(op)