Abstract

Despite the progress that has been made in many other aspects of data visualisation, phylogenies are still represented in much the same way as they first were by Darwin. In this brief essay, I give a short review of what I consider to be some recent major advances, and outline a new kind of phylogenetic visualisation. This new graphic, the fibre plot, uses the metaphor of sections through a tree to describe change in a phylogeny. I suggest it is a useful tool in gaining an rapid overview of the timing and scale of diversification in large phylogenies.

Highlights

  • Despite the progress that has been made in many other aspects of data visualisation, phylogenies are still represented in much the same way as they first were by Darwin

  • A new generation of phylogeneticists are piecing together the entire tree of life, making vast phylogenies of millions of taxa[1,2]

  • This paper presents a brief overview on phylogenetic visualization and introduces a novel approach for visualizing phylogenies using fibre plots

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Summary

Haeckel EH

Generelle Morphologie der Organismen allgemeine Grundzuge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begrundet durch die von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenz-Theorie von Ernst Haeckel: Allgemeine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Organismen kritische Grundzuge der mechanischen Wissenschaft von den entstehenden Formen der Organismen, begrundet durch die Descendenz-Theorie.

Ioannidis Y
13. Munzner T: H3
15. Sanderson MJ
19. Crutzen PJ

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