universal.treeshape {apTreeshape} | R Documentation |
This data set describes the Universal Tree of Life described by CR Woese, in the treeshape
class.
"The universal phylogenetic tree not only spans all extant life, but its root and earliest branchings represent stages in the evolutionary process before modern cell types had come into being."
data(universal.treeshape)
universal.treeshape
is an object of class "treeshape"
.
Woese, C. R. (July, 2000) Interpreting the universal phylogenetic tree, 97, 392 – 8396 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA).
## Example tree in "treeshape" format data("universal.treeshape") ## Summary of the tree summary(universal.treeshape) ## Visual representation of the tree plot(universal.treeshape)