Interpreting Phylogenies - Exercises

Aidan Budd and Tomas Larsson

Viewing and Manipulating Unscaled Trees with NJplot

• Notes
• Demonstration
• Exercise

Investigating Branch Lengths and Scaled Trees with MESQUITE

• Notes
• Demonstration
• Exercise

Working with Scaled Trees in Dendroscope

• Formating Trees for Figures
• Working with Large Trees

Viewing Unrooted Trees

• Demonstration

NEWICK/PHYLIP Format

• Notes
• Demonstration
• Exercise

Editing Trees with MESQUITE

• Notes
  
• Demonstration
• Exercises

Phylogenetic Splits

• Notes
• Analysing Splits "by hand"
  
• Exercise
• Building Consensus Trees "by hand"
• Exercise
• Building Consensus Trees and Split Networks using CONSENSE and SplitsTree
• Exercise

Phylogenetic Analysis - From Start to Finish

• General Notes
• Using Pre-Calculated Phylogenies
  
• Demonstration
• Exercise
• Using Phylogeny.fr to Estimate Phylogeny
• Demonstration
• Exercise