What about this (after reading 'tree' using your code):

n <- Ntip(tree)
dates <- estimate.dates(tree, rep(0, n), .0221)
plot(compute.brtime(tree, -dates[-(1:n)]))
axisPhylo()

?

E.

----- Le 6 Mar 24, à 2:50, Vincenzo Ellis vael...@udel.edu a écrit :

> Dear Klaus,
> 
> Thank you for your response. I was wondering if you could expand on how to
> do this with phangorn::pml_bb(). Here's a small tree I made in Raxml with
> the cytochrome b gene of a few species of birds:
> library(ape)
> tree <- read.tree(text =
> "(Nesillas_typica:0.04793543089316195,(((A_schoenobaenus:0.043980600360374364,A_melanopogon:0.06481521246716708):0.022244127250028972,(((I_caligata:0.08810019775981455,I_pallida:0.062476654152826855):0.017350459234948976,(((A_newtoni:0.033344055105229795,A_sechellensis:0.01792648331103279):0.021283417245643144,(A_rufescens:0.05238658747602984,A_gracilirostris:0.044877312044462714):0.013125661916305195):0.022403450749406223,((A_arundinaceus:0.04093765705229456,A_stentoreus:0.01826146619561772):0.015107695382970854,A_griseldis:0.0972067122912957):0.011211088579910683):0.02819743631258305):0.007869067285886489,(H_icterina:0.058362559770475525,H_polyglotta:0.033259000190850735):0.05342630181117944):0.005148698839842897):0.006239321505491391,((A_palustris:0.05185723350471064,(A_scirpaceus:0.014053067606248151,A_baeticatus:0.008365145972302118):0.045911856091680914):0.023773812432215297,(A_dumetorum:0.08560190754497965,A_agricola:0.07765117111045171):0.000001):0.013260470881828468):0.04793543089316195);")
> 
> If we assume that the divergence rate for cytochrome b for these species
> is 2.21% per million years, how could we rescale the tree with a strict
> clock? Do we need to start with a DNA alignment and re-estimate the tree
> topology or can this be done just with the ML tree I already estimated and
> the rate?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Vincenzo
> 
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 7:57 PM Klaus Schliep <klaus.schl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Vincenzo,
>> For ML estimates the edge length are the expected number of substitutions
>> per site, which depends on the product of rate and time. So you need either
>> a rate estimate or calibration points to estimate the time. If you divide
>> the edge length by the rate the edges should be proportional to time.
>> With pml_bb you can estimate ultrametric or tip dated trees with a strict
>> molecular clock model.
>> Kind regards,
>> Klaus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>>
>> > Am 04.03.2024 um 21:06 schrieb Vincenzo Ellis <vael...@udel.edu>:
>> >
>> > Dear Liam,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your answer. Yes, I have a hypothesized average clock rate
>> > and no explicit calibration points.
>> >
>> > If I use ape::chronos() with default values it gives me a depth of 1 at
>> the
>> > root. So I suppose to rescale the branch lengths I just need to multiply
>> > all of the branch lengths by a value (i.e., tree$edge.length * value), is
>> > that right?
>> >
>> > Thanks again,
>> >
>> > Vincenzo
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 11:43 AM Liam J. Revell <liam.rev...@umb.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dear Vincenzo.
>> >>
>> >> If I understand your problem problem, you do not have any explicit
>> >> calibration points -- but you have a hypothesized average clock rate?
>> >>
>> >> If so, then you can obtain an ultrametric tree from* ape::chronos* for
>> >> any value of the smoothing parameter (*lambda*) and then simply re-scale
>> >> it to have the desired total depth (based on your hypothesized clock
>> rate).
>> >>
>> >> To choose a "correct" value of *lambda* one can use cross-validation as
>> >> described in Sanderson (2002;
>> doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003974).
>> >>
>> >> Others should feel welcome to weigh in if this is not right.
>> >>
>> >> All the best, Liam
>> >> Liam J. Revell
>> >> Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston
>> >> Web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/
>> >> Book: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R
>> >> <
>> https://press.princeton.edu/books/phylogenetic-comparative-methods-in-r>
>> >> (*Princeton University Press*, 2022)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 3/4/2024 11:09 AM, Vincenzo Ellis wrote:
>> >>
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>> >> Dear Emmanuel,
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much for your response. I cannot see how to provide the
>> >> substitution rate to the phangorn::pml_bb() function, but I was looking
>> at
>> >> the ape::node.dating() function and it appears that I could provide the
>> >> substitution rate to the "mu" argument and then set the "node.dates"
>> >> argument to NA or zero for all tips (I'm not sure if NA or zero would be
>> >> preferable to force the tips to all be from a single time point). Do you
>> >> think that would work? I'm not sure how to make ape::node.dating()
>> accept a
>> >> substitution rate rather than try to estimate one. Maybe an option
>> could be
>> >> added to allow mu to equal a user-specified number rather than the
>> output
>> >> of ape::estimate.mu()?
>> >>
>> >> Another option might be to calculate an estimated age for every node
>> >> connecting sister taxa in the tree by converting the genetic distances
>> >> between sister pairs to divergence times using the substitution rate and
>> >> then use those as priors in ape::chronos(). I suppose I could also apply
>> >> that logic to date all of the nodes by using the mean pairwise distances
>> >> between taxa on either side of a node and converting that to divergence
>> >> times (although the R code for such a calculation would likely take me a
>> >> while to figure out). Would that be another option?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks again,
>> >>
>> >> Vincenzo
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 5:44 AM Emmanuel Paradis <
>> emmanuel.para...@ird.fr> <emmanuel.para...@ird.fr>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Vincenzo,
>> >>
>> >> There's no direct way to do this with ape::chronos(). You may have a
>> look
>> >> at the function phangorn::pml_bb() but I'm not sure it can estimate the
>> >> dates if the rate is provided in a model object given as main
>> argument(?)
>> >>
>> >> That said, I expect that estimating so many dates to be very challenging
>> >> (unless you have a lot of known dates for calibration). This implies
>> that
>> >> you are certainly right to look for an approach where you don't need to
>> >> estimate the rates.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >>
>> >> Emmanuel
>> >>
>> >> ----- Le 27 Fév 24, à 22:40, Vincenzo Ellis vael...@udel.edu a écrit :
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dear R-sig-phylo members,
>> >>
>> >> I've made a maximum likelihood tree in Raxml for several thousand taxa
>> >> using a single gene that has an estimated substitution rate of 0.006
>> >> substitutions/nucleotide/My. Is there a way to use chronos in ape to
>> >>
>> >> apply
>> >>
>> >> that substitution rate as a fixed clock rate and generate an ultrametric
>> >> time-scaled version of the tree?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >>
>> >> Vincenzo
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