ungulates {adephylo}

Phylogeny and quantitative traits of ungulates.

Description

This data set describes the phylogeny of 18 ungulates as reported by Pelabon et al. (1995). It also gives 4 traits corresponding to these 18 species.

Format

fission is a list containing the 2 following objects :

tre

is a character string giving the phylogenetic tree in Newick format.

tab

is a data frame with 18 species and 4 traits

Details

Variables of ungulates$tab are the following ones :

- afbw: is a numeric vector that describes the adult female body weight (g)
- mnw: is a numeric vector that describes the male neonatal weight (g)
- fnw: is a numeric vector that describes the female neonatal weight (g)
- ls: is a numeric vector that describes the litter size

Note

This dataset replaces the former version in ade4.

Source

Data were obtained from Pelabon, C., Gaillard, J.M., Loison, A. and Portier, A. (1995) Is sex-biased maternal care limited by total maternal expenditure in polygynous ungulates? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 37, 311–319.

Examples

if(require(ape) && require(phylobase)){
## load data
data(ungulates)
tre <- read.tree(text=ungulates$tre)
plot(tre)

## look at two traits
afbw <- log(ungulates$tab[,1])
neonatw <- log((ungulates$tab[,2]+ungulates$tab[,3])/2)
names(afbw) <- tre$tip.label
names(neonatw) <- tre$tip.label
plot(afbw, neonatw) # relationship between traits
lm1 <- lm(neonatw~afbw)
abline(lm1)
x <- phylo4d(tre, cbind.data.frame(afbw, neonatw)) # traits on the phylogeny

## test phylogenetic inertia in residuals
orthogram(residuals(lm1), x) 
}