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Drawing phylogenetic trees has been important for a long time in the study of biological evolution, as illustrated by Darwin’s only figure in his Origin of Species [49]. A plotted phylogeny is the usual way to summarize the results of a phylogenetic anlysis. This also gives the essence of the evolutionary processes and patterns.
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Paradis, E. (2012). Plotting Phylogenies. In: Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R. Use R!. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1743-9_4
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