R: Phylogeny and quantative trait of carnivora

carni19 {ade4} | R Documentation

## Phylogeny and quantative trait of carnivora

### Description

This data set describes the phylogeny of carnivora as reported by Diniz-Filho et al. (1998). It also gives the body mass of these 19 species.

### Usage

    data(carni19)

### Format

`carni19` is a list containing the 2 following objects :

tre

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

bm

  is a numeric vector which values correspond to the body mass of the 19 species (log scale).

### Source

Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., de Sant'Ana, C.E.R. and Bini, L.M. (1998) An eigenvector method for estimating phylogenetic inertia. Evolution, 52, 1247–1262.

### Examples

    data(carni19)
    carni19.phy <- newick2phylog(carni19$tre)
    par(mfrow = c(1,2))
    symbols.phylog(carni19.phy,carni19$bm-mean(carni19$bm))
    dotchart.phylog(carni19.phy, carni19$bm, clabel.l=0.75)
    par(mfrow = c(1,1))

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