Friday, April 2, 2010
Cladogram rendered with Adobe Illustrator
Like photoshop, this is my first experience with Adobe Illustrator. We we supposed to do something with rendering a strat section, but Dr. Parcell suggested that I do something biology related. So, here is my rendering of a cladogram for the tribe Cyclocephalini based off of the unpublished work of Dr. Brett C. Ratcliffe (cerca 1980).
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What do the numbers stand for?
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ReplyDeleteThe small numbers represent a "character." This is an evolutionary trait. A dot represents a "character state advancement" or the gain of a new trait, and the arrows represent a "character state reversal" of loss of a trait back to the ancestral state. I took this information trying to recreate the unpublished work of Dr. Brett Ratcliffe (from 1980). I just asked my adviser about the numbers in the nodes and she's not even sure what they represent and wonders if they are numbered talking points for a presentation. I hope some of that makes sense.
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