Character distribution maps: a visualization method for comparative cladistics (original) (raw)

Abstract

The rise of computational methods and widespread availability of phylogenetic software packages has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of phylogenetic analyses published each year. We anticipate that as the number of workers and the number of analyses continues to increase, interest in so-called 'meta-analyses’ that compare not just the resultant trees, but the data themselves, will also increase. Here, we demonstrate a simple method for authors to facilitate such comparisons by visually representing the character data included in their analyses, the Character Distribution Map (CDM).

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