Showing posts with label Mesquite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mesquite. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2013

Making Phylogenies Pretty

I'd like anyone and everyone to chime in on this. I need to create high-quality figures of phylogenies. I'm currently using Mesquite to get the backbone of the tree, but could use any advice in getting the tree looking good enough to be on a powerpoint slide:


I'd love to take a look at what people consider to be good phylogeny figures and what programs people use to make things look good. But mostly, I just want some more ideas about how to make this look better...even from those of you have no experience with phylogenies at all!

Edit: I'm collapsing all the edits into one. I've updated it such that all of the taxa are putatively monophyletic.