mrca.2nodes {phybase}R Documentation

Find the most recent common ancestor of two nodes

Description

The function can find the most recent common ancestor of two nodes inode and jnode

Usage

mrca.2nodes(inode, jnode, nodematrix)

Arguments

inode the node inode
jnode the node jnode
nodematrix the tree node matrix

Value

anc the node number of the most recent common ancestor of inode and jnode.
dist the distance between the two nodes.

Author(s)

Liang Liu lliu@oeb.harvard.edu

See Also

mrca.nodes, coaltime, popsize

Examples

treestr<-"((((H:0.00402,C:0.00402):0.00304,G:0.00707):0.00929,O:0.01635):0.1,W:0.12);"
nodematrix<-read.tree.nodes(treestr)$nodes
mrca.2nodes(1,2,nodematrix)

[Package phybase version 1.1 Index]