locate.yeti {phytools} | R Documentation |
Locate a cryptic, recently extinct, or missing taxon on a tree
Description
Uses ML (or REML) to place a recently extinct, cryptic, or missing taxon on an ultrametric (i.e., time-calibrated) phylogeny following Revell et al. (2015).
Usage
locate.yeti(tree, X, ...)
Arguments
tree |
an object of class |
X |
a matrix with continuous character data. |
... |
optional arguments including: |
Value
Optimized tree as an object of class "phylo"
.
Author(s)
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
References
Felsenstein, J. (1981) Maximum likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters. American Journal of Human Genetics, 25, 471-492.
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.
Revell, L. J., D. L. Mahler, R. G. Reynolds, and G. J. Slater. (2015) Placing cryptic, recently extinct, or hypothesized taxa into an ultrametric phylogeny using continuous, character data: A case study with the lizard Anolis roosevelti. Evolution, 69, 1027-1035.