newick.eg {ade4} | R Documentation

## Phylogenetic trees in Newick format

### Description

This data set contains various exemples of phylogenetic trees in Newick format.

### Usage

    data(newick.eg)

### Format

`newick.eg` is a list containing 14 character strings in Newick format.

### Source

Trees 1 to 7 were obtained from the URL
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html.

Trees 8 and 9 were obtained by Clémentine Carpentier-Gimaret gimaret@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr.

Tree 10 was obtained from Treezilla Data Sets starting from
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~krice/treezilla/.

Trees 11 and 12 are taken from Bauwens and Díaz-Uriarte (1997).

Tree 13 is taken from Cheverud and Dow (1985).

Tree 13 is taken from Martins and Hansen (1997).

### References

Bauwens, D. and Díaz-Uriarte, R. (1997) Covariation of life-history traits in lacertid lizards: a comparative study. American Naturalist, 149, 91–111.

Cheverud, J. and Dow, M.M. (1985) An autocorrelation analysis of genetic variation due to lineal fission in social groups of rhesus macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 67, 113–122.

Martins, E. P. and Hansen, T.F. (1997) Phylogenies and the comparative method: a general approach to incorporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data. American Naturalist, 149, 646–667.

### Examples

    data(newick.eg)
    newick2phylog(newick.eg[[11]])
    radial.phylog(newick2phylog(newick.eg[[7]]), circ = 1,
     clabel.l = 0.75)

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