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phylo.toBackbone

Converts tree to backbone or vice versa

Converts between "phylo" and "backbonePhylo".

phylo.toBackbone(x, trans, ...)
backbone.toPhylo(x)

`x`	an object of class `"phylo"` (for the function `phylo.toBackbone`), or an object of the special class `"backbonePhylo"` (for `backbone.toPhylo`).
`trans`	data frame containing the attributes necessary to translate a backbone tree to an object of class `"backbonePhylo"`. The data frame should contain the following variables: `tip.label`: the tip labels in the input tree (not all need be included); `clade.label`: labels for the unobserved subtrees; `N`: number of species in each subtree; and `depth`: desired depth of each subtree. `depth` for each terminal taxon in `x` cannot be greater than the terminal edge length for that taxon.
`...`	optional arguments.

Either an object of class "phylo" or an object of class "backbonePhylo", depending on the method.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.