plethodon

Description

Branching times for plethodontid salamanders from Highton and Larson (1979) and analyzed by Nee et al. 1994 and Nee 2001

Usage

data(plethodon)

Format

The data are represented by a numeric vector of branching times

Source

Highton, R., and A. Larson. 1979. The genetic relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Syst. Zool. 28:579 - 599.

References

Nee, S., E. C. Holmes, R. M. May, and P. H. Harvey. 1994a. Extinction rates can be estimated from molecular phylogenies. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 344:77-82.

Nee, S. 2001. Inferring speciation rates from phylogenies. Evolution 55:661-668.

Examples

data(plethodon)
plotLtt(plethodon)

Results