lizards {ade4}R Documentation

Phylogeny and quantitative traits of lizards

Description

This data set describes the phylogeny of 18 lizards as reported by Bauwens and Díaz-Uriarte (1997). It also gives life-history traits corresponding to these 18 species.

Usage

data(lizards)

Format

lizards is a list containing the 3 following objects :

traits
is a data frame with 18 species and 8 traits.
hprA
is a character string giving the phylogenetic tree (hypothesized phylogenetic relationships based on immunological distances) in Newick format.
hprB
is a character string giving the phylogenetic tree (hypothesized phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characteristics) in Newick format.

Details

Variables of lizards$traits are the following ones : mean.L (mean length (mm)), matur.L (length at maturity (mm)), max.L (maximum length (mm)), hatch.L (hatchling length (mm)), hatch.m (hatchling mass (g), clutch.S

References

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

Examples

data(lizards)
w <- data.frame(scalewt(log(lizards$traits)))
par(mfrow = c(1,2))
wphy <- newick2phylog(lizards$hprA)
table.phylog(w, wphy, csi = 3)
wphy <- newick2phylog(lizards$hprB)
table.phylog(w, wphy, csi = 3)
par(mfrow = c(1,1))

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