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METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 217-223Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00169.x
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blogging; computational biology; evolution; phylogeny; statistics
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1. Here, I present a new, multifunctional phylogenetics package, phytools, for the R statistical computing environment. 2. The focus of the package is on methods for phylogenetic comparative biology; however, it also includes tools for tree inference, phylogeny input / output, plotting, manipulation and several other tasks. 3. I describe and tabulate the major methods implemented in phytools, and in addition provide some demonstration of its use in the form of two illustrative examples. 4. Finally, I conclude by briefly describing an active web-log that I use to document present and future developments for phytools. I also note other web resources for phylogenetics in the R computational environment.
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