I suppose you could average the distance matrices, getting a distance
matrix, and then apply hierarchical clustering... or threshold the average
distance matrix at a sequence of values and compute connected components for
each... that sounds like it's in the spirit of a "majority-rule consensus
tree" though I don't know what that is.

Reid Huntsinger

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Dear Listers,

I emailed the list a few days ago about how to bootstrap a community 
matrix (species by sites) and get a consensus tree with node support. A 
friend pointed out that a similar question remained unanswered in 2004.
I wish to re-word my question: is anyone aware of a package / method to 
obtain a majority-rule consensus tree from x distance matrices ? Is 
anyone using R to generate phylogenetic trees with node support ?

thanks for your time and consideration,
Eric P.


Eric Pante
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Grice Marine Laboratory
205 Fort Johnson Road, Charleston SC 29412
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