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. 2022 May 27;44(4):335-339.
doi: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.005. eCollection 2022 Jul.

V.PhyloMaker2: An updated and enlarged R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

Yi Jin  1 , Hong Qian  2
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V.PhyloMaker2: An updated and enlarged R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

Yi Jin et al. Plant Divers. .

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Abstract

An earlier version of V.PhyloMaker has been broadly used to generate phylogenetic trees of vascular plants for botanical, biogeographical and ecological studies. Here, we update and enlarge this package, which is now called 'V.PhyloMaker2'. With V.PhyloMaker2, one can generate a phylogenetic tree for vascular plants based on one of three different botanical nomenclature systems. V.PhyloMaker2 can generate phylogenies for very large species lists (the largest species list that we tested included 365,198 species). V.PhyloMaker2 generates phylogenies at a fast speed. We provide an example (including a sample species list and an R script to run it) in this paper to show how to use V.PhyloMaker2 to generate phylogenetic trees.

Keywords: Community phylogenetics; Global plants; Phylogeny; Species list; V.PhyloMaker; Vascular plants.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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The number of the publications that used either S.PhyloMaker (Qian and Jin, 2016) or V.PhyloMaker (Jin and Qian, 2019) in each year, based on Thompson Reuters ISI Web of Science (access on April 21, 2022). The total number of the publications using these two packages is 449.
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