Thanks Joe!
I'll check out your refs. If I understand the code correctly, the rtree
function in ape seems to implement something very much like the method for
you described for bifucating trees. I'm guessing it could be adapted to
implement the multifurcate method as well. I'll have to develop my
Eduardo Ascarrunz ear...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I figured out I could work with unrooted trees. I suspect the procedure
would be similar to your rooted method, wouldn't it?
There is a 1-1 correspondence between n-species rooted tree topologies
and (n+1)-species unrooted tree topologies (this