[R-sig-phylo] find mrca of multiple taxa.

Hello all, I'm trying to replace a clade of tips with a single tip, placed at the mrca of all taxa clade (similar Q to here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-phylo/2012-March/001895.html). Before i bind tree, I just need to a nice way to identify which node encompasses all descendants. I see

[R-sig-phylo] retraction

Hi all, Just to be complete for any future readers, the function findMRCA from phytools meets this need. Took me awhile to go through all eight phylogeny related packages i have. Thanks Ben -- Ben Weinstein Graduate Student Ecology and Evolution Stony Brook University

Re: [R-sig-phylo] find mrca of multiple taxa.

Hi Ben. Take a look at the function findMRCA in my package, phytools. I think this does what you want. Good luck. Liam Liam J. Revell University of Massachusetts Boston web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/ email: liam.rev...@umb.edu blog: http://phytools.blogspot.com -Original