Phylogenetic Trees and Alignments for Canarieae Radiation in Madagascar

Sarah Federman from Yale University provides phylogenetic data for studying the Canarieae tree tribe. The directory contains XML, Newick, and Phylip files with concatenated alignments and trees from three Bayesian inferences. Code for generating figures and biogeographic models is available on request.

Use Cases

• Conducting phylogenetic inference based on the provided XML files for Bayesian analysis.
• Analyzing evolutionary relationships using the maximum clade credibility trees from three different inference scenarios.
• Reproducing biogeographic models and figures using the available scripts.
• Studying the impact of fossil calibrations on tree topology by comparing the three provided tree sets.

Strengths

• Includes three distinct phylogenetic inferences for comparative analysis.
• Provides both raw data (XML alignments) and processed outputs (Newick trees).
• Associated analysis code and scripts are available on request.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect taxonomic and geographic bias inherent to the specific Canarieae study.

Provenance

Source

Yale University

Collection Method

Phylogenetic inference using molecular data alignments and fossil calibrations.

Geography

Madagascar