Re: Need help doing phylogenetic analyses

[Rich Grenyer <r.grenyer@ic.ac.uk>]

> Hi everyone.  This is directed to those of you who use PAUP to perform
> phylogenetic analyses.  I do as well, but since I have a new beta version, I
> don't have a manual yet.  I can perform analyses just fine, but I need to
> know how to find out which characters support which clade in the trees that
> are generated.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>
> Mickey Mortimer

Assuming that I've interpreted the question right, I'd suggest 
MacClade, if you don't have it already; you'll be able to map the fit 
of each character to the tree, and see the synapomorphies supporting 
each node. If this is useful, I'll dig up the way to get hold of it, 
and post that as well.

Rich

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