Fern Tree of Life (FTOL) backbone phylogeny

Majority-rule extended consensus phylogenetic tree inferred from whole fern plastomes by maximum-likelihood, including maximal sampling of available species on GenBank.

Usage

backbone_tree

Format

List of class "phylo"

Details

Includes 504 tips and 503 internal nodes. Branch lengths are in units of estimated genetic change per site (not ultrametric). Node labels are bootstrap support (%).

For details on methods used to infer the tree, see Nitta et al. 2022.

References

Nitta JH, Schuettpelz E, Ramírez-Barahona S, Iwasaki W. (2022) An open and continuously updated fern tree of life. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.909768