So I have a data set of around 100 specimens of dinosaur species which have been seperated by clade (therapod, saurapodamorph, dinosauromorph and ornithischian), the data set includes the name and code of the specimen e.g. Apatosaurus_CM3018 and finally all specimens have 5 measurements taken from section of the caudal vertebrae (where there is an increase in size the length is positive and where there is a decrease in size the length is made negative). Using mequite or R or any software, how can i essentially create a phylogenetic tree taking into account the clade, the time period of that dinosaur and of course the 5 length data's. Any help would be appreciated, furthermore is there a way to run a hierarchical.
The split data consists of the length measurements and
Good morning, thanks for looking to contact me. I would love to support you, however, I am not qualified to support you in choosing the best method to do cladistic analysis. What I can tell you is that when I did an analysis only with morphological characters, nothing was resolved in the group I was studying, but when I combined them with molecular data, some morphological data were reflected as synapomorphies (secondary phylogenetic signal). I suggest you contact Dr. Gerardo Salazar from the UNAM Institute of Biology.
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Hi good morning, actually I am new to this field and exploring ways of analyzing data and a novice in the field of research. How else can I help you
Thanushan Ravishankar read and experiment from this: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/natural-selection/phylogeny/a/building-an-evolutionary-tree.
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