{"doi":"10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00169.x","title":"phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)","abstract":"<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p><jats:bold>1.</jats:bold> Here, I present a new, multifunctional phylogenetics package, phytools, for the R statistical computing environment.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>2.</jats:bold> The focus of the package is on methods for phylogenetic comparative biology; however, it also includes tools for tree inference, phylogeny input/output, plotting, manipulation and several other tasks.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>3.</jats:bold> I describe and tabulate the major methods implemented in phytools, and in addition provide some demonstration of its use in the form of two illustrative examples.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>4.</jats:bold> Finally, I conclude by briefly describing an active web‐log that I use to document present and future developments for phytools. I also note other web resources for phylogenetics in the R computational environment.</jats:p>","journal":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","year":2011,"id":5114,"datarank":14.862514333429944,"base_score":9.1833801903934,"endowment":9.1833801903934,"self_citation_contribution":1.3775070285590103,"citation_network_contribution":13.485007304870933,"self_endowment_contribution":1.3775070285590103,"citer_contribution":13.485007304870933,"corpus_percentile":92.6,"corpus_rank":1049,"citation_count":9733,"citer_count":196,"citers_with_citation_signal":196,"citers_with_endowment":196,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2011-12-15","authors":[{"id":51921,"name":"Liam J. Revell","orcid":"0000-0003-0767-4713","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":45,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-03-01T18:20:47.508186Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}