Example bird phylogeny for the 300 species in avonet300

An object of class 'phylo' from the ape package. It is posterior sample member 69 from the Hackett-backbone half of BirdTree's 100-tree bird collection, retrieved through the megatrees package and pruned to the 300 species in avonet300. The MIT software licence for megatrees does not establish rights for the underlying BirdTree data; see the installed NOTICE. This object is included for examples, not as an MCC or consensus tree or a recommended tree for substantive analysis.

Usage

tree300

Format

An object of class phylo with 300 tips.

Source

Example phylogeny drawn from the BirdTree Hackett-backbone collection. The underlying BirdTree distribution is described by Jetz et al. (2012); see the installed NOTICE for data provenance and reuse information.

References

Hackett SJ, Kimball RT, Reddy S, et al. (2008). A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. Science, 320(5884), 1763-1768. doi:10.1126/science.1157704 .

Jetz W, Thomas GH, Joy JB, Hartmann K, Mooers AO (2012). The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature, 491, 444-448. doi:10.1038/nature11631 .